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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, απατηλός

From 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, ovela

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  devious
     Engelska a.
     slingrande, irrande; oärlig, bedräglig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Devious /dˈiːviəs/
  مخادع

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  devious //ˈdiːvi.əs// 
  1. неи́скрен, нече́стен
  cunning or deceiving, not straightforward
  2. лъкату́шен, непря́к, око́лен
  roundabout, circuitous, deviating

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  devious /dˈiːviəs/ 
  vychytralý

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  devious /dˈiːviəs/ 
  vyhýbavý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  devious /dˈiːviəs/
  hinterhältig, verschlagen, krumm, trickreich 
        "by devious means"  - auf die krumme Tour

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  devious /dˈiːviəs/
  
  ύπουλος, δόλιος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  devious //ˈdiːvi.əs// 
  1. katala, kiero, petollinen
  cunning or deceiving, not straightforward
  2. epäsuora, kiertelevä, kiertävä
  roundabout, circuitous, deviating

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  devious /dˈiːviəs/ 
  1. चालाक, चतुर
        "He made money by devious means."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  devious /dˈiːviəs/
  koji luta, koji skreće, kružni, sporedni

From 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. kacskaringós

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  devious /ˈdi:vɪəs/ 
   1.  pokrętny, kręty
   2.  okrężny

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  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 ]

  

/ˈdiviəs/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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, zigzag
  
  

From 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

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