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  2. DEVIOUS definition: 1. Devious people or plans and methods are dishonest, often in a complicated way, but often also…. Learn more.

  3. The meaning of DEVIOUS is wandering, roundabout. How to use devious in a sentence. The 'Lost' History of Devious.

  4. Devious people or plans and methods are dishonest, often in a complicated way, but often also smart and successful: You have to be devious if you're going to succeed in business. a devious scheme. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. deceiving others and not telling the truth.

  5. Devious describes someone who tends to lie and to trick other people. Devious credit card companies lure younger and younger people into debt with offers of low interest rates and even just free t-shirts.

  6. If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way. [disapproval] Newman was devious, prepared to say one thing in print and another in private. By devious means she tracked down the other woman.

  7. 1. Not straightforward; shifty: a devious character. 2. Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring: achieved success by devious means. 3. Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout: a devious route. 4. Away from a main road or course; distant or removed.

  8. devious. behaving in a dishonest or indirect way, or tricking people, in order to get something synonym deceitful, underhand. He got rich by devious means. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.

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