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deviousadjective clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meanswe always left it to our most devious friends to find out the latest information artful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting marked by a long series of irregular curvesa devious trail through the swampland bending, crazy, crooked, curled, curling, curved, curving, curvy, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, winding, windy zigzag, zigzaggingcircling, coiled, coiling, corkscrew, looping, spiral, spiraling(or spiralling), swirlingcircuitous, indirect, roundaboutmeandering, rambling, wanderingirregular, jagged, uneven straight, straightaway direct, linear departing from some accepted standard of what is normalher behavior is devious because of a developmental disorder aberrant, aberrational, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, deviant, deviate, irregular, unnatural, untypical unrepresentativeextraordinary, preternaturalrare, uncommon, uncustomary, unusual, unwontedbizarre, curious, far-out, funny, kinky, odd, outlandish, out-of-the-way, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, remarkable, screwy, strange, wacky(also whacky), way-out, weird, wildeccentric, freakish, idiosyncratic, nonconformist, unconventional, unorthodoxextraordinary, preternaturalrare, uncommon, uncustomary, unusual, unwontedodd, peculiar, strange natural, normal, regular, standard, typical common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, ordinary, routine, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine(or run-of-mine), unexceptional, unremarkable, workadaycustomary, usual, wontedarchetypal(also archetypical), average, characteristic, representative in 1599 |