Synonyms for Devious:

• adj.

  •Machiavellian (adjective)
  • most plotting,
  • more plotting,
  • most opportunist,
  • more opportunist.
  •all (adjective)
  • devious.
  •byzantine (adjective)
  • more daedal,
  • most daedal.
  •calculating (adjective)
  • gingerly,
  • SAFER,
  • shrewdest,
  • more intelligent,
  • safest.
  •circuitous (adjective)
  • most ambagious,
  • meandering,
  • more ambagious.
  •complex (adjective)
  • byzantine.
  •crafty (adjective)
  • slick,
  • dis-ingenuous,
  • more streetwise,
  • most streetwise,
  • dis ingenuous,
  • street smart.
  •crooked (adjective)
  • tilted,
  • topsyturvy,
  • not straight,
  • double-dealing,
  • screwy,
  • illegal,
  • untruthful,
  • Knurly,
  • catawampus,
  • out of shape,
  • Double dealing,
  • Incurving,
  • Tortile,
  • mis-shapen,
  • shady,
  • warped,
  • Agee.
  •crooked; indirect (adjective)
  • confusing,
  • digressory,
  • detouring,
  • curving,
  • Digressing,
  • confounding,
  • misleading,
  • ambiguous,
  • removed,
  • rambling,
  • twisting,
  • bending,
  • straying,
  • Deviating,
  • serpentine,
  • excursive,
  • flexuous,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • diverting.
  •cunning (adjective)
  • smooth,
  • scheming,
  • clever,
  • canny,
  • masterly,
  • wily,
  • wary,
  • deft,
  • sharp,
  • foxy,
  • witty,
  • feline,
  • shrewd,
  • artful,
  • quick,
  • skillful,
  • ingenious,
  • cunning,
  • astute,
  • snaky,
  • sly,
  • masterful.
  •designing (adjective)
  • de signing,
  • more conspiring,
  • most conniving,
  • most conspiring,
  • more conniving,
  • de-signing.
  •deviant (adjective)
  • hetero clite,
  • more unrepresentative,
  • un-typical,
  • most heteroclite,
  • wayward,
  • heretical,
  • hetero-clite,
  • offkey,
  • un-orthodox,
  • un typical,
  • most unrepresentative,
  • off key,
  • un orthodox,
  • un-representative,
  • Heteroclite,
  • more heteroclite,
  • un representative.
  •deviating (adjective)
  • excursionary,
  • excursional,
  • aberrative.
  •diagonal (adjective)
  • bent,
  • slanting,
  • angled,
  • crosswise,
  • diagonal,
  • inclined,
  • sloping,
  • leaning,
  • aslant,
  • Deviated,
  • biased.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • dishonest,
  • corrupt,
  • unscrupulous,
  • insincere,
  • Deceiving,
  • immoral,
  • deceitful,
  • double-faced,
  • traitorous,
  • cheating,
  • turncoat,
  • treacherous,
  • felonious,
  • Prevaricating,
  • hypocritical.
  •dishonest, crafty (adjective)
  • sneaking,
  • playing games,
  • surreptitious,
  • playing politics,
  • put on,
  • erring,
  • obliquitous,
  • fishy,
  • not straightforward,
  • faking one out.
  •dishonorable (adjective)
  • most blackguardly,
  • in-famous,
  • dis graceful,
  • dis creditable,
  • in famous,
  • un respectable,
  • most unrespectable,
  • dis reputable,
  • in-glorious,
  • dis-graceful,
  • un-respectable,
  • dis-creditable,
  • more blackguardly,
  • infamous,
  • in glorious,
  • more opprobious,
  • dis-honorable,
  • dis honorable,
  • scandalous,
  • most opprobious,
  • more unrespectable,
  • dis-reputable.
  •errant (adjective)
  • shifting,
  • mischievous,
  • off straight and narrow,
  • Errable.
  •erratic (adjective)
  • un-stabler,
  • most directionless,
  • more directionless,
  • in calculable,
  • un-usual,
  • in consistent,
  • iffy,
  • more undirected,
  • un usual,
  • most vagarious,
  • in constant,
  • un stabler,
  • mercurial,
  • un-stable,
  • more vagarious,
  • un-stablest,
  • most undirected,
  • in-calculable,
  • more oddball,
  • un stablest,
  • in-constant,
  • un-natural,
  • more fluctuant,
  • un stable,
  • in-consistent,
  • most fluctuant,
  • un directed,
  • un-directed.
  •evasive (adjective)
  • casuistical,
  • casuistic,
  • Elusory,
  • sophistical.
  •false (adjective)
  • perfidious,
  • Perjured,
  • falsehearted,
  • rascally,
  • mythomaniac,
  • Forsworn,
  • scoundrelly.
  •foxy (adjective)
  • more retiary,
  • most retiary.
  •fraudulent (adjective)
  • more swindling,
  • more bamboozling,
  • most swindling,
  • most bamboozling.
  •indirect (adjective)
  • dis-cursive,
  • more circumlocutory,
  • most vagrant,
  • periphrastic,
  • most sidelong,
  • implied,
  • most snaking,
  • more snaking,
  • more sidelong,
  • in-direct,
  • long drawn out,
  • more vagrant,
  • dis cursive,
  • most circumlocutory,
  • in direct,
  • long winded.
  •insincere (adjective)
  • snide,
  • most dissimulating,
  • in-sincerer,
  • more dissimulating,
  • dis simulating,
  • in-sincere,
  • most put-on,
  • most put on,
  • un-truest,
  • hypo critical,
  • un-truer,
  • puton,
  • hypo-critical,
  • most puton,
  • un truest,
  • in sincere,
  • more puton,
  • more put-on,
  • dis-simulating,
  • in sincerest,
  • in sincerer,
  • un truer,
  • in-sincerest,
  • more put on.
  •irregular (adjective)
  • unsymmetrical,
  • out of proportion,
  • off-balance,
  • not uniform,
  • elliptic,
  • lumpy,
  • off balance,
  • unaligned,
  • Zigzagged,
  • protuberant.
  •mala fide (adjective)
  • left handed,
  • mala fide,
  • lefthanded.
  •mealy-mouthed (adjective)
  • mealymouthed,
  • mealy mouthed.
  •meandrous (adjective)
  • Meandrous.
  •obscure (adjective)
  • unheard-of,
  • orphic,
  • irrelevant,
  • unnoted,
  • unhonored,
  • seldom seen,
  • far off,
  • unheard of.
  •pretentious (adjective)
  • mealy-mouthed.
  •remote (adjective)
  • in a backwater,
  • god-knows-where,
  • off beaten path,
  • off-lying,
  • middle of nowhere.
  •roundabout (adjective)
  • taking the long way.
  •shifty (adjective)
  • more prevaricative,
  • most dodging,
  • most unhonest,
  • fly by night,
  • most prevaricative,
  • more unhonest,
  • more prevaricatory,
  • more dodging,
  • un-honest,
  • un honest,
  • Unhonest,
  • most prevaricatory.
  •sinuous (adjective)
  • twisting and turning,
  • Undulating,
  • deviative.
  •slippery (adjective)
  • in-secure,
  • un steadiest,
  • in securer,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un steadier,
  • un-predictable,
  • un steady,
  • in-securer,
  • un safer,
  • mutable,
  • un predictable,
  • un-steadier,
  • un-safe,
  • in secure,
  • in securest,
  • un-safest,
  • un-safer,
  • un safest,
  • un safe,
  • in-securest.
  •subtle (adjective)
  • ratiocinative.
  •tortuous (adjective)
  • in volute,
  • in-volute.
  •tricky (adjective)
  • most witted,
  • wry,
  • more witted.
  •underhand (adjective)
  • dirty dealing,
  • on the quiet,
  • sub-rosa,
  • dirty-dealing.
  •underhanded (adjective)
  • under handed,
  • under-handed.
  •unprincipled (adjective)
  • stop-at-nothing,
  • stop at nothing,
  • mercentary,
  • amoral.
  •untrustworthy (adjective)
  • un-dependable,
  • most fair weather,
  • un trusty,
  • most trustless,
  • more trustless,
  • un-trusty,
  • more fair weather,
  • un-trustier,
  • most unassured,
  • un-sure,
  • finker,
  • un sure,
  • untrustiest,
  • un assured,
  • un-assured,
  • un-trustiest,
  • untrustier,
  • finkest,
  • un trustiest,
  • un dependable,
  • un trustworthy,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • fairweather,
  • most fairweather,
  • more unassured,
  • more fairweather,
  • more fair-weather,
  • most fair-weather,
  • un trustier.
  •untruthful (adjective)
  • two-faced,
  • deceptive,
  • lying.
  •wandering (adjective)
  • landloping.
  •winding (adjective)
  • maziest,
  • more spiraling,
  • mazier,
  • most gyrating,
  • most spiraling,
  • more gyrating,
  • wriggliest,
  • wrigglier.
  •zigzag (adjective)
  • trans-verse,
  • more oscillating,
  • more waggling,
  • more crinkled,
  • trans verse,
  • most oscillating,
  • most waggling,
  • more fluctuating,
  • most crinkled.

• n.

  •
  • dubious.
  •
  • purpose.
  •crafty (noun)
  • insidious.
  •phoniness (noun)
  • ambidextrou,
  • deceitfuls,
  • hypocriticals,
  • deviou,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • mendaciou,
  • perfidiou,
  • duplicitou,
  • dissimulatings,
  • two-faceds,
  • two faceds,
  • pretentiou,
  • untruthfuls,
  • twofaceds,
  • shifties,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • un faithfuls,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • lyings,
  • evasives,
  • un trues,
  • disingenuou,
  • dissemblings,
  • unfaithfuls,
  • un-faithfuls,
  • snides,
  • un-trues,
  • falses,
  • backhandeds,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • untrues,
  • faithlesses,
  • deceptives.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • duplicitous,
  • shonky,
  • fast-talking,
  • faithless,
  • lowdown,
  • disreputable,
  • machiavellian,
  • conniving,
  • thieving,
  • sleazy,
  • unworthy,
  • corruptible,
  • twisty,
  • venal,
  • tricksy,
  • grubby,
  • light-fingered,
  • mendacious,
  • fly-by-night.
  •
  • complex,
  • guileful,
  • anfractuous,
  • lousy,
  • lubricious,
  • funny,
  • tortuous,
  • spitball.
  •
  • circular,
  • disingenuous,
  • manipulative,
  • shabby,
  • irregular.
  •
  • wandering.
  •
  • low.

Paraphrases for Devious:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    sneaky.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    wicked.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    insidious, disingenuous, underhand, cunning, deceitful, sly, foul, twisted.

Antonyms for Devious:

• adj.

  • dishonest, crafty
    fair, artless, open, naive, honest, straightforward, truthful, forthright, trustworthy, straight, sincere, direct, frank.
  • Other antonyms:
    linear, plainspoken, trustful, unforced, everyday, commonplace, childlike, unvarnished, patent, trusty, candid, ordinary, typical, Undesigning, simpleminded, guileless, archetypal, unconcealed, unexceptional, unremarkable, run-of-the-mill, common, trusting, impressionable, standard, outspoken, run-of-the-mine, workaday, characteristic, routine, customary, normal, unworldly, aboveboard, wonted, plain, regular, public, obvious, representative, unsophisticated, usual, average, unstudied.

Homophones for Devious:

• De Bakey, diaphysis, debs, daviesia, dipsacus, doofus, dovekie, dipsacaceae, dibbuk, dieback, debase, database, dative case, deface, du bois, debouch, devices, device, daybook, die back, devoice, diffuse, deific, daboecia, debauchee, ditty bag, dabchick, deep-six, davis, devisee, day book, deedbox, dubious, date back, depose, dybbuk, devise, debussy, davys, deep-sea, diadophis, dipus, deep kiss, Dovish, dubuque, defog, debauch, defuse, debug.