devious / ˈdi vi əs /

⚽高中词汇狡猾的奸诈的邪恶的狡诈的

devious 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect: a devious course.
  2. without definite course; vagrant: a devious current.
  3. departing from the proper or accepted way; roundabout: a devious procedure.
  4. not straightforward; shifty or crooked: a devious scheme to acquire wealth.

devious 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

dishonest, crafty

adj. 形容词 adjective

crooked; indirect

更多devious例句

  1. In Philipps’s telling, Gallagher is a soulless master manipulator who goads his men into committing war crimes in a devious effort to prevent them from turning on him.
  2. Exceedingly devious how you hid the context with an ellipses in your tweet.
  3. Everyone who is a critic of Carlson is engaged in some devious effort to undermine him and his supporters, the truth-teller and the real Americans.
  4. In ways large and small, devious and immature, ingenious and inspiring, she struggled to escape.
  5. Rocket teamed up with the Incredible Hulk to overthrow Judson Jakes, a devious mole.
  6. “I love college football,” she tells me with a devious grin.
  7. The alleged conspirators also used more devious means to bolster credit scores.
  8. Bork said modern liberals have to use devious lies to get elected.
  9. Easterns are born with an appetite for intrigue, with a love of walking in hidden ways and creeping along devious paths.
  10. The conversation had come, by some devious route, to Vegetarianism; and the clergyman was disapproving of it.
  11. Fettes, with various liquors singing in his head, returned home with devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance.
  12. The remaining bullocks strayed devious, and the douce McLaughlan blandly absorbed the sheep.
  13. Then he almost suspected that Lester was being devious and clever.