deviousness 的定义
- departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect: a devious course.
- without definite course; vagrant: a devious current.
- departing from the proper or accepted way; roundabout: a devious procedure.
- not straightforward; shifty or crooked: a devious scheme to acquire wealth.
deviousness 近义词
dishonesty
更多deviousness例句
- 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.
- Exceedingly devious how you hid the context with an ellipses in your tweet.
- 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.
- In ways large and small, devious and immature, ingenious and inspiring, she struggled to escape.
- Rocket teamed up with the Incredible Hulk to overthrow Judson Jakes, a devious mole.
- “I love college football,” she tells me with a devious grin.
- The alleged conspirators also used more devious means to bolster credit scores.
- Bork said modern liberals have to use devious lies to get elected.
- Easterns are born with an appetite for intrigue, with a love of walking in hidden ways and creeping along devious paths.
- The conversation had come, by some devious route, to Vegetarianism; and the clergyman was disapproving of it.
- Fettes, with various liquors singing in his head, returned home with devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance.
- The remaining bullocks strayed devious, and the douce McLaughlan blandly absorbed the sheep.
- Then he almost suspected that Lester was being devious and clever.