Synonyms for more devious
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dee-vee-uhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdi vi əs |
Top 10 synonyms for more devious Other synonyms for the word more devious
- ambiguous
- artful
- bending
- confounding
- confusing
- crooked
- curving
- detouring
- deviating
- digressing
- digressory
- diverting
- double-dealing
- errant
- erratic
- erring
- evasive
- excursive
- faking one out
- fishy
- flexuous
- foxy
- guileful
- indirect
- not straightforward
- oblique
- obliquitous
- obscure
- out-of-the-way
- playing games
- playing politics
- put on
- rambling
- remote
- removed
- roundabout
- scheming
- serpentine
- shady
- shifty
- sneaking
- sneaky
- straying
- surreptitious
- tortuous
- treacherous
- tricky
- twisting
- underhanded
- wandering
- wily
Définition of more devious
Origin :- 1590s, "out of the way," from Latin devius "out of the way, remote, off the main road," from de via (see deviate). Originally in the Latin literal sense; figurative sense of "deceitful" is first recorded 1630s. Related: Deviously; deviousness. Figurative senses of the Latin word were "retired, sequestered, wandering in the byways, foolish, inconsistent."
- adj dishonest, crafty
- adj crooked; indirect
- Defeated in that, his enemies resorted to a more devious method; they began to lop away his friends.
- Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
- I wouldn't want you to think that Psi's are more devious or Machiavellian than normals, but sometimes they act it.
- Extract from : « The Right Time » by Walter Bupp
- Indeed the professionally downright man is often more devious than the tactful person.
- Extract from : « The Unpopular Review Vol. I » by Various
- Moved by projects deeper and more devious than ours, the Dutchman made haste to cover up what seemed to have been an overshot.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story » by Various
- But fifteen miles would do it, if the more devious path had to be taken.
- Extract from : « The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter » by Henry Hawkes Spink Jr.
- Such subtlety as he possessed had been acquired through contact with the more devious races.
- Extract from : « Jewels of Gwahlur » by Robert E. Howard
- The original road, too, adopted in imperial times a more devious but easier route by Aeclanum instead of by Trevicum.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 » by Various
Antonyms for more devious
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