devious 音标拼音: [d'iviəs]
a . 偏僻的,迂回的
偏僻的,迂回的
devious adj 1 :
indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way ;
misleading ; "
used devious means to achieve success ";
"
gave oblique answers to direct questions "; "
oblique political maneuvers " [
synonym : {
devious }, {
oblique }]
2 :
characterized by insincerity or deceit ;
evasive ; "
a devious character "; "
shifty eyes " [
synonym : {
devious }, {
shifty }]
3 :
deviating from a straight course ; "
a scenic but devious route "; "
a long and circuitous journey by train and boat "; "
a roundabout route avoided rush -
hour traffic " [
synonym : {
devious },
{
circuitous }, {
roundabout }]
Devious \
De "
vi *
ous \,
a . [
L .
devius ;
de via way .
See {
Viaduct }.]
1 .
Out of a straight line ;
winding ;
varying from directness ;
as ,
a devious path or way .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Going out of the right or common course ;
going astray ;
erring ;
wandering ;
as ,
a devious step .
Syn :
Wandering ;
roving ;
rambling ;
vagrant . -- {
De "
vi *
ous *
ly },
adv . -- {
De "
vi *
ous *
ness },
n .
[
1913 Webster ]
172 Moby Thesaurus words for "
devious ":
Byzantine ,
O -
shaped ,
aberrant ,
aberrative ,
ambagious ,
amoral ,
anfractuous ,
artful ,
backhand ,
backhanded ,
balled up ,
bending ,
calculating ,
canny ,
circuitous ,
circular ,
complex ,
complicated ,
confounded ,
confused ,
conscienceless ,
convoluted ,
corrupt ,
corrupted ,
crabbed ,
crafty ,
criminal ,
crooked ,
cunning ,
curving ,
daedal ,
dark ,
deceitful ,
deceptive ,
deflectional ,
departing ,
designing ,
desultory ,
deviant ,
deviating ,
deviative ,
deviatory ,
digressive ,
discursive ,
dishonest ,
dishonorable ,
divagational ,
divergent ,
diverting ,
double -
dealing ,
doubtful ,
dubious ,
duplicitous ,
elaborate ,
embrangled ,
entangled ,
errant ,
erratic ,
erring ,
evasive ,
excursive ,
felonious ,
fishy ,
fouled up ,
foxy ,
fraudulent ,
furtive ,
guileful ,
helical ,
ill -
got ,
ill -
gotten ,
immoral ,
implicated ,
indirect ,
insidious ,
insincere ,
intricate ,
involuted ,
involved ,
knotted ,
knowing ,
labyrinthian ,
labyrinthine ,
left -
handed ,
lonesome ,
loused up ,
many -
faceted ,
matted ,
mazy ,
meandering ,
messed up ,
misleading ,
mixed up ,
mucked up ,
multifarious ,
not kosher ,
oblique ,
orbital ,
out -
of -
the -
way ,
pawky ,
perplexed ,
planetary ,
plotting ,
questionable ,
rambling ,
ramified ,
remote ,
removed ,
retired ,
rotary ,
rotten ,
round ,
roundabout ,
roving ,
scheming ,
screwed up ,
secret ,
secretive ,
serpentine ,
shady ,
shameless ,
shifting ,
shifty ,
shrewd ,
side ,
sidelong ,
sinister ,
sinistral ,
sinuous ,
slick ,
slippery ,
sly ,
smooth ,
snaky ,
snarled ,
sneaking ,
sneaky ,
spiral ,
stray ,
subtile ,
subtle ,
surreptitious ,
suspicious ,
swerving ,
tangled ,
tangly ,
tortuous ,
treacherous ,
tricky ,
turning ,
twisted ,
twisting ,
unconscienced ,
unconscientious ,
unconscionable ,
underhand ,
underhanded ,
undirected ,
unethical ,
unprincipled ,
unsavory ,
unscrupulous ,
unstraightforward ,
vagrant ,
veering ,
vulpine ,
wandering ,
wily ,
winding ,
without remorse ,
without shame ,
zigzag
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