devious

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Tamma tiptoes “up climbs with body english and devious footwork”; she clings to fingerholds the size of molars; a fall sees her come “cheesegrating” down a slab.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

I prefer to think of it as a solid cargo ship delivering inciting devices, as in the lethal xenomorphs engineered by Michael Fassbender’s devious android David 8.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025

“People know me as a striver, someone who’s always coming up with devious, clever ways around things, who then gets punched in the face by the world over and over,” Odenkirk says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025

"I think he is a devious and Machiavellian individual," Commander Southworth told the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

Yet again, Fabyan had found a devious way to trap William and Elizebeth at Riverbank.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield