devious

Speech parts

1. devious - Adjective

2. devious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.

Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Phrases with the word

Examples

But two miles more, and then we rest! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the West Will light us on our devious way; Sit then, awhile, here in this wood- So total is the solitude, We safely may delay. Charlotte Brontë

What devious designs freedom requires. One must worry about the strength of a principle when it must compromise itself so often to survive. Pierce Brown

That's the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you're detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it's just them being even more devious and underhand than usual. Iain Banks

I want to remind governments in every country of the range and force of counter-tactics used by the tobacco industry – an industry that has much money and no qualms about using it in the most devious ways imaginable. Margaret Chan

The best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning. Charles Haughey

It would seem that making unusual connections is unusually difficult and, often, rather "indirect"-be it via words, images, or whatever. The bizarre structures used by mnemonist (and, presumably unknowingly, by each of us) suggests that arbitrary connections require devious pathways. Marvin Minsky

Close letter words and terms