DEVIOUS in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for DEVIOUS, such as:
1. She led him by devious ways to the meeting place.
2. How clever he must be to devise such a devious plan!.
3. I sought the Continent, and went devious through all its lands.
4. Vida believed that she had explained many deep and devious matters.
5. You have to be a bit devious if you're going to succeed in business.
2. How clever he must be to devise such a devious plan!.
3. I sought the Continent, and went devious through all its lands.
4. Vida believed that she had explained many deep and devious matters.
5. You have to be a bit devious if you're going to succeed in business.
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Meanings and Examples of DEVIOUS
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devious
a. departing from correct or accepted way; misleading; not straightforward
Classic Sentence:
1 By a devious track between the fields they wound back to the Starkfield road.
2 Vida believed that she had explained many deep and devious matters.
3 So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor'-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake.
4 When the travellers had pushed on at a rapid rate through many devious paths, the Palmer at length broke silence.
5 Yet his purpose was baffled by the devious paths through which he rode, so that when evening closed upon him, he only found himself on the frontiers of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
6 He would follow a devious course up and down the streets, circling always nearer and nearer in a tremor of fear and joy, until his feet led him suddenly round a dark corner.
7 She wanted to be on good terms with them but, while she strove to be polite, her eyes followed Mr. Holohan in his limping and devious courses.
8 I sought the Continent, and went devious through all its lands.
Example Sentence:
1 You have to be a bit devious if you're going to succeed in business.
2 She led him by devious ways to the meeting place.
3 His devious nature was shown in half-lies and small dishonesties.
4 How clever he must be to devise such a devious plan!.
5 The story of Byzantine art, though not precisely devious, is not straightforward either.
6 An international court ruled that Russia owes shareholders of the now-defunct oil giant Yukos more than $50 billion for what it described as the Kremlin's "devious and calculated expropriation" of assets designed to bankrupt the firm.