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• She made a devious innuendo about her opponent, who was embarrassed.From the entry innuendo
• They hired the most devious scammers they could find and paid them quite well to do some red-team work, because it takes one to know one.From the entry it takes one to know one
• Who is sneakier, untrustworthier, and all round more devious that the newest oxymoron, the "Clinton Justice Department"?1999 January 26, Docky Wocky [pseudonym], “Big Brother loses one”, in alt.current-events.clinton (Usenet). From the entry untrustworthier
• It centred on the various and devious methods used in serving us hamburger.1988, Peter Hunter, “Back to School: Dealing with Dissent”, in Which Side Are You On, Boys: Canadian Life on the Left, Toronto, Ont.…. From the entry centre
• They were devious war aims, and Allenby’s campaign was fought with a maximum of snare and subterfuge.1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part One, Chapter 9, p. 173. From the entry snare
• This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it's also the season of spirited shopdropping.2007 December 24, Ian Urbina, “Anarchists in the aisles? Stores provide a stage”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry shopdropping
• From the filthy, louse-ridden cells of Russia’s overcrowded prisons has emerged a serial killer that is as devious as it is dangerous.2001 January 15, David Bjerklie et al., “Your A to Z Guide to the Year in Medicine”, in Time. From the entry louse-ridden
• It’s not the age of reason, or even the nineteenth century, it’s the era of flummery, and the day of the devious approach.1960, John Wyndham, The Trouble With Lichen, Penguin Books, page 91. From the entry flummery
• For a planned slubbiness, there is a rather devious way to produce an effect known as wobbled yarn, one of the tricks of the old-time spinners.1987, Paula Simmons, Spinning and weaving with wool, published 1977, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry slubbiness
• At least two other completely different methods of turning the flexatube inside out are known, and both are as devious and difficult to discover as this one.1958, Scientific American - Volume 198, page 126. From the entry flexatube
• On the other hand, nearly all magic tends in time to the left-handed path; as being a devious means of attaining desires unobtainable by ordinary methods.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 23. From the entry left-handed
• The various plotters and counterplotters go their devious ways, proceeding with all the subtlety of bulls in china shops, but we never do learn what the plot is all about.1933 January 29, “My Lady Dangerous. By Sydney Horler. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry bull in a china shop

Meaning of devious

1. adjective Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
2. adjective Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route.

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How do you use devious in a sentence?

Devious is used as an adjective. For example: “She made a devious innuendo about her opponent, who was embarrassed.”

What is a short sentence with devious?

“She made a devious innuendo about her opponent, who was embarrassed.”

What does devious mean?

Devious means cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.