devious

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Sentencing the three on Tuesday at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Christopher Hehir called Dale a "thoroughly devious and untruthful and manipulative young woman".

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

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

“By damn, man, if there is one human being in the world less devious than Robert Lee, I aint yet met him. By God and fire, Colonel, but you amuse me.”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara