What is another word for devious?
524 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dˈiːvɪəs], [ dˈiːvɪəs], [ d_ˈiː_v_ɪ__ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for devious:
- Machiavellian (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- byzantine (adjective)
- calculating (adjective)
- circuitous (adjective)
- complex (adjective)
- crafty (adjective)
- crooked (adjective)
- crooked; indirect (adjective)
- cunning (adjective)
- designing (adjective)
- deviant (adjective)
- deviating (adjective)
- diagonal (adjective)
- dishonest (adjective)
- dishonest, crafty (adjective)
- dishonorable (adjective)
- errant (adjective)
- erratic (adjective)
- evasive (adjective)
- false (adjective)
- foxy (adjective)
- fraudulent (adjective)
- indirect (adjective)
- insincere (adjective)
- irregular (adjective)
- mala fide (adjective)
- mealy-mouthed (adjective)
- meandrous (adjective)
- obscure (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pretentious (adjective)
- remote (adjective)
- roundabout (adjective)
- shifty (adjective)
- sinuous (adjective)
- slippery (adjective)
- subtle (adjective)
- tortuous (adjective)
- tricky (adjective)
- underhand (adjective)
- underhanded (adjective)
- unprincipled (adjective)
- untrustworthy (adjective)
- untruthful (adjective)
- wandering (adjective)
- winding (adjective)
- zigzag (adjective)
- crafty (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- phoniness (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
Synonyms for Devious:
adj.
• Machiavellian (adjective) • all (adjective) • byzantine (adjective) • calculating (adjective) • circuitous (adjective) • complex (adjective) • crafty (adjective) • 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.
- confusing,
- digressory,
- detouring,
- curving,
- Digressing,
- confounding,
- misleading,
- ambiguous,
- removed,
- rambling,
- twisting,
- bending,
- straying,
- Deviating,
- serpentine,
- excursive,
- flexuous,
- out-of-the-way,
- diverting.
- smooth,
- scheming,
- clever,
- canny,
- masterly,
- wily,
- wary,
- deft,
- sharp,
- foxy,
- witty,
- feline,
- shrewd,
- artful,
- quick,
- skillful,
- ingenious,
- cunning,
- astute,
- snaky,
- sly,
- masterful.
- 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.
- dishonest,
- corrupt,
- unscrupulous,
- insincere,
- Deceiving,
- immoral,
- deceitful,
- double-faced,
- traitorous,
- cheating,
- turncoat,
- treacherous,
- felonious,
- Prevaricating,
- hypocritical.
- sneaking,
- playing games,
- surreptitious,
- playing politics,
- put on,
- erring,
- obliquitous,
- fishy,
- not straightforward,
- faking one out.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- unsymmetrical,
- out of proportion,
- off-balance,
- not uniform,
- elliptic,
- lumpy,
- off balance,
- unaligned,
- Zigzagged,
- protuberant.
- erratic,
- unrespectable,
- long way around,
- indirect,
- mazy,
- prevaricative,
- slippery,
- calculating,
- Trustless,
- untrusty,
- remote,
- by way of,
- blackguardly,
- unprincipled,
- underhand,
- circuitous,
- circumlocutory,
- tricky,
- errant,
- longwinded,
- roundabout,
- winding,
- Witted,
- underhanded,
- fraudulent,
- unassured,
- subtle,
- zigzag,
- directionless,
- Snaking,
- long way,
- crafty,
- prevaricatory,
- untrustworthy,
- shorthanded,
- stray,
- Daedal,
- streetwise,
- long way home,
- unrepresentative,
- fair weather,
- Fluctuant,
- opprobious,
- spiraling,
- oblique,
- wriggly,
- dishonorable,
- Retiary,
- ambagious,
- false,
- Vagarious,
- designing,
- shifty,
- fair-weather,
- evasive,
- crazy like fox,
- crooked,
- deviant,
- sneaky,
- sinuous,
- sidelong,
- undirected,
- winding around.
- more prevaricative,
- most dodging,
- most unhonest,
- fly by night,
- most prevaricative,
- more unhonest,
- more prevaricatory,
- more dodging,
- un-honest,
- un honest,
- Unhonest,
- most prevaricatory.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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- dubious.
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- purpose.
- 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.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- duplicitous,
- shonky,
- fast-talking,
- faithless,
- lowdown,
- disreputable,
- machiavellian,
- conniving,
- thieving,
- sleazy,
- unworthy,
- corruptible,
- twisty,
- venal,
- tricksy,
- grubby,
- light-fingered,
- mendacious,
- fly-by-night.
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- complex,
- guileful,
- anfractuous,
- lousy,
- lubricious,
- funny,
- tortuous,
- spitball.
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- wandering.
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- low.
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Homophones for Devious:
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