devious
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6.2
- adjective
- /ˈdiːviəs/
:
sinuoso
- That's what allows devious Royals to construct slopes that look deceptively similar.
Examples
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"A devious icebreaking task to."
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Common sense suggests that basic skills can be tackled directly, rather than through the devious, indirect route of the arts, and that the three Rs are more predictive of success in writing job applications or balancing a checkbook than music and dance activities are.
Academic text (1998) -
Hawk... this is an ancient, devious world, and you come from a young country.
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He took the jug from her and led the devious way back towards the door.
Fiction book (1990) -
So there they were on a narrow, devious road going up a mountainside through pine trees that collected the snow in wet clumps.
Fiction book (1998) -
To combat Wilson's metaphor with one of my own: the genes provide not a leash but a launching pad, from which you can get almost anywhere, by one devious route or another.
Academic text (2001) -
It had all the qualities of theater, I went on, but a theater-in-reverse: "In obedience to some devious vanished script, the actors abandon the stage and begin to scale the seating arrangements, the balconies, and hanging boxes now occupied only by cleaning women."
Fiction book (1999) -
The hikers found themselves lost in the devious paths of the forest that twisted and turned unexpectedly.
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The devious route through the old town was full of surprises and unexpected discoveries.
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The devious design of the maze challenged the players to think creatively to find their way out.
Synonyms
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8.4
Taking a longer, indirect way instead of a direct route
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4.9
Not direct in route, speech, or action
Antonyms
How Indirect
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Devious comes from the Latin parts de- 'away' and via 'road'. It originally meant 'off the road', so a devious route is one that turns away from the direct path and is not straight.