Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Departure from a regular course; wandering.
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- noun The characteristic of being
devious ;sneakiness ;underhandedness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
- noun the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
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Examples
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Any one with a ounce of political deviousness is going to capitalize on those feelings by making the same statements as Mahoney.
Ex-RNC member knocks Republicans in launching House bid 2010
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Just one of the many testaments to their nigh unconquerable deviousness is the endless variety of “squirrel-proof bird feeders” (probably the biggest oxymoron in the English language — right up there with a “Light Twinkie” and, if you really think about it, “Sustainable Development”).
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Parliamentary report finds Government minister's use FOI laws for 'deviousness' NEARLY half of
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Nor was her undeserved reputation for meanness and deviousness insurmountable.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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We don't mess around with mind games, we use knives. — The Good Wife's Eli Gold sparring with his competitor Stacie Hall, whose deviousness gets sexual in their latest round. ...
Matt's TV Week in Review: Stunts on Grey's and Glee, and More 2012
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Nor was her undeserved reputation for meanness and deviousness insurmountable.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Murphy proved naively blind to the political deviousness of French reactionaries, such as Lemaigre-Dubreuil.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Murphy proved naively blind to the political deviousness of French reactionaries, such as Lemaigre-Dubreuil.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Nor was her undeserved reputation for meanness and deviousness insurmountable.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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The depths of human deviousness was a hard thing for a machine to fathom.
Art & Me Harris Tobias 2011
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