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deviously

Adverb

Meaning

in a devious manner

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The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter. F. Lee Bailey

In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself. Paul Scott

he got the promotion by behaving deviously Source: Internet

But is it all a ruse, a scheme, a lull the evil Nightmare King has deviously concocted? Source: Internet

“Dickinson’s worldbuilding is ambitious and his language deviously subtle; both are seductive in their complexity. Source: Internet

It is the sacred duty of the eldest child to deviously taunt the youngest sibling. Source: Internet

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