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Another word for devious

devious Synonyms

devious

modif.

Indirect
circuitous, roundable, tortuous, evasive; see indirect.
Crafty
foxy, insidious, shrewd, underhanded; see dishonest 1, sly 1.

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Another word for devious

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Marked by treachery or deceit:
disingenuous, duplicitous, guileful, indirect, lubricious, shifty, sneaky, underhand, underhanded. See honest
Not taking a direct or straight line or course:
anfractuous, circuitous, circular, indirect, oblique, roundabout, tortuous. See straight
Without a fixed or regular course:
erratic, stray, wandering. See purpose

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Our human thought pursues devious and circuitous methods.
After a devious chase of a month Hood moved across Alabama to northern Mississippi.
She made raised maps in clay, so that I could feel the mountain ridges and valleys, and follow with my fingers the devious course of rivers.
The difference between English and Roman miles would be compensated for by the more devious course taken by the railway.
The Thames follows a devious course through London, and the fine embankments on its north side, nowhere continuing uninterruptedly for more than 2 m., do not form important thoroughfares, with the exception of the Victoria Embankment.

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