devious
About 0.94 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
- adjective Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route.
Similar words
untrustworthy indirect shifty roundabout circuitous untrusty oblique duplicitous deceitful cunning
Often followed by
and ways means way course paths route methods routes
Word family
deviously deviousness deviousnesses
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