Crossword clues for devious
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Devious \De"vi*ous\, a. [L. devius; de + via way. See Viaduct.]
Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "out of the way," from Latin devius "out of the way, remote, off the main road," from de via (see deviate). Originally in the Latin literal sense; figurative sense of "deceitful" is first recorded 1630s. Related: Deviously; deviousness. Figurative senses of the Latin word were "retired, sequestered, wandering in the byways, foolish, inconsistent."
Wiktionary
a. deviate; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: oblique]
characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes" [syn: shifty]
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" [syn: circuitous, roundabout]
Wikipedia
Devious may refer to:
- Deviation (disambiguation)
- Devious (novel), the ninth book in The It Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar
- Devious Diesel, a character in the television series Thomas and Friends
Devious is the ninth book in The It Girl series created by Cecily von Ziegesar. It was released 1 November 2009.
Devious is an upcoming fan-made Doctor Who story. Filming started in 1991, with live-action scenes mostly completed by 2005. Though the full production has yet to be completed, a preview of it can be found on the Special Features DVD of the classic Doctor Who story The War Games. In the final scene Jon Pertwee appears in what was to be his last appearance as the third Doctor. Pertwee later suffered a fatal heart attack in Connecticut, and died at the age of 76, one year after the scene was filmed in 1995.
Anneke Wills, who played the companion Polly in the original series, features in a short cameo. A scene filmed in May 2003 features the actors Peter Tuddenham and Hugh Lloyd as Timelords, both of whom played parts in the original series.
On the official web page it was announced that the project was planned to be finished by the end of 2011. As of April 2015 it is still in production. As of 2016, episode one is finished and filming is complete with special effects, audio corrections, and color correction still underway but near completion.
Devious is metal band from Hengelo, Overijssel (NL), founded by Frank Schilperoort (drums) and Guido de Jongh (guitar). Devious has toured throughout Europe with Krisiun in 2006 and with Entombed and Merauder in 2009. Devious is currently working on their new release "Wolfhagen".
Usage examples of "devious".
Prussian cavalry, then we could partition the Japans without a hiccup and have done with all their devious stupidity and time-wasting bad manners.
Ramage felt he was in no hurry to get to the flagship: he was tired of the Admiral Rudds of this world, devious men who never said what they really thought, and who never thought fairly in any case.
To all Boers it is an historical spot, for it was at its base that the wagons of the Voortrekkers, coming by devious ways from various parts, assembled.
Perhaps a work which should chronicle the opposite course, which should trace out all the devious courses through which a man of the world, a man of ambitions, drags his conscience, just steering clear of crime that he may gain his end and yet save appearances, such a chronicle would be no less edifying and no less dramatic.
I had had, I thought, good success in my early experiments, but the outcome was thwarted by some antivivisectionists who were convinced that I was using the cats for cruel, devious pranks, and the two females which I thought I had impregnated disappeared forever beyond my control.
The goddess is too heavy-handed, too ensnared by emotion, to think with such devious, insidious clarity.
A silent moon loomed low in the sky, throwing long and devious shadows from every fencepost and tree.
Gift and Flower in their tourist travels also heard one whispered rumor to the effect that some actual berserker machines, imported along devious trade routes from who knows where, by unknown means, had been and were still being brought into close contact with Solarian society.
They will stay out there on the street until whenever, in dumb hats and seam-busted zootsuits, looking fantastically greedy and devious, and fooling no one.
Even Aimee had a bit of that in her, but in her it took a slower, more devious form.
Tuesday in a 27-count indictment involving ambitiously devious bank fraud.
This had been the home of Azran, and she already knew too well how devious he had been.
In booths and at tables and the long bar were toothless bunco steerers, addict-pushers, and devious pimps.
To escape from each other, they wandered through many a dark and devious thicket, till they were astonished by the horrid phantoms of Cerinthus and Apollinaris, who guarded the opposite issues of the theological labyrinth.
Out of a far and devious past and the corridors of Ruhkarv had come a creature, intelligent or not, ruler of those ways once, or a prowler in them, as great an enemy to the builders as it was to the Fauklow men, which had had the energy to revive and attack its arousers.