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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Devious \De"vi*ous\, a. [L. devius; de + via way. See Viaduct.] 1. Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way. [1913 Webster] 2. Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step. Syn: Wandering; roving; rambling; vagrant. -- De"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- De"vi*ous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Devious \De"vi*ous\, a. [L. devius; de + via way. See Viaduct.] 1. Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way. 2. Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step. Syn: Wandering; roving; rambling; vagrant. -- De"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- De"vi*ous*ness, n.From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
devious adj 1: indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers" [syn: oblique] 2: characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes" [syn: shifty] 3: deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic" [syn: circuitous, roundabout]From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
devious Αγγλικά a. δόλιος, απατηλόςFrom English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
devious a. 1 cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank. 2 roundabout, circuitous, deviate from the direct or ordinary route.From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
devious a. 1 cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank. 2 roundabout, circuitous, deviate from the direct or ordinary route.From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
devious a. 1 cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank. 2 roundabout, circuitous, deviate from the direct or ordinary route.From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
devious a. 1 cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank. 2 roundabout, circuitous, deviate from the direct or ordinary route.From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
devious Englanti a. kavala, katala, ovelaFrom Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
devious Engelska a. slingrande, irrande; oärlig, bedrägligFrom English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Devious /dˈiːviəs/ مخادعFrom English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
devious //ˈdiːvi.əs//From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]1. неи́скрен, нече́стен cunning or deceiving, not straightforward 2. лъкату́шен, непря́к, око́лен roundabout, circuitous, deviating
devious /dˈiːviəs/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]vychytralý
devious /dˈiːviəs/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]vyhýbavý
devious /dˈiːviəs/ hinterhältig, verschlagen, krumm, trickreichFrom English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]"by devious means" - auf die krumme Tour
devious /dˈiːviəs/ ύπουλος, δόλιοςFrom English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]
devious //ˈdiːvi.əs//From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]1. katala, kiero, petollinen cunning or deceiving, not straightforward 2. epäsuora, kiertelevä, kiertävä roundabout, circuitous, deviating
devious /dˈiːviəs/From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]1. चालाक, चतुर "He made money by devious means."
devious /dˈiːviəs/ koji luta, koji skreće, kružni, sporedniFrom English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
devious /dˈiːviəs/ 1. kerülô 2. fondorlatos 3. isten háta mögötti 4. félreesô 5. tekervényes 6. körmönfont 7. kanyargó 8. görbe 9. kanyargós 10. csavaros 11. kacskaringósFrom English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
devious /ˈdi:vɪəs/From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]1. pokrętny, kręty 2. okrężny
devious /dˈiːviəs/ 1. dolaşık, eğri büğrü, dolambaçlı 2. çapraşık, sapa 3. sapmış, avare, başıboş. deviously çapraşık olarak, dolambaçlı. deviousness çapraşıklık, dolambaçlı oluş.From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈdiviəs/
172 Moby Thesaurus words for "devious": Byzantine, O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, amoral, anfractuous, artful, backhand, backhanded, balled up, bending, calculating, canny, circuitous, circular, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, conscienceless, convoluted, corrupt, corrupted, crabbed, crafty, criminal, crooked, cunning, curving, daedal, dark, deceitful, deceptive, deflectional, departing, designing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, digressive, discursive, dishonest, dishonorable, divagational, divergent, diverting, double-dealing, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, errant, erratic, erring, evasive, excursive, felonious, fishy, fouled up, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, helical, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, implicated, indirect, insidious, insincere, intricate, involuted, involved, knotted, knowing, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, left-handed, lonesome, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, misleading, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, not kosher, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, pawky, perplexed, planetary, plotting, questionable, rambling, ramified, remote, removed, retired, rotary, rotten, round, roundabout, roving, scheming, screwed up, secret, secretive, serpentine, shady, shameless, shifting, shifty, shrewd, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, sinuous, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, snarled, sneaking, sneaky, spiral, stray, subtile, subtle, surreptitious, suspicious, swerving, tangled, tangly, tortuous, treacherous, tricky, turning, twisted, twisting, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, undirected, unethical, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vagrant, veering, vulpine, wandering, wily, winding, without remorse, without shame, zigzagFrom Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
adj.不正当的;迂回From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 偏僻的,迂回的