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Pronunciation:
[ dˈiːvɪəs], [ dˈiːvɪəs], [ d_ˈiː_v_ɪ__ə_s]
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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.
-
•
- wandering.
-
•
- low.
How to use "Devious" in context?
The word "devious" suggests cunning, underhandedness, and trickery. When someone is described as being devious, it often means that they are able to come up with schemes that are sly and underhanded in nature. Devious people are often able to get their own way by playing one person against another, or by using their charms or intellect to deceive others.
Some of the most famous examples of devious people are the spies Harry Houdini and James Bond. Houdini was well known for his escape stunts, most of which involved locking himself in tight spaces.
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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.
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