1 behaving in a dishonest or indirect way, or deceiving people, in order to get sth
SYNCUNNING:
a devious politician * He got rich by devious means.
2 ~ route / path a route or path that is not straight but has many changes in direction; not direct:
a devious route from the airport
deviously adverb
deviousness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for devious is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is devious a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, devious is tagged as adjective.
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