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deviousness

/dee-vee-uhs/US // ˈdi vi əs //UK // (ˈdiːvɪəs) //

歪风邪气,狡诈,偏差,歪风

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.