Crossword clues for deviousness
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.
Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness.
WordNet
n. the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly [syn: obliqueness]
the quality of being deceitful and underhanded [syn: crookedness]
Usage examples of "deviousness".
You are steeped in deviousness, cunning and casual criminality, Sergeant Jackrum.
Colonel B would be appalled when he learned of his behaviour All caution, all deviousness, had been leached out of him.
The late Lord Lovat had been notorious for the deviousness of his mind, but I couldn't quite see the benefit in planning to have his head chopped off, and said so -Jamie smiled, despite the seriousness of the discussion.
There seemed to be a definite link between the spiderlike deviousness of Scaragoglu and the sort of low cunning Paddy had picked up in a decade sliding up and down the greasy pole of rank from rating to noncom and back.
The Nagha was a strictly logical thinking machine, without the ability fully to understand the deviousness possible to a real brain.
Arkos had known little about this woman except her name, but her airy confidence, deviousness, and pocket-picking talents had created in his mind the stereotypical fringe image, someone willing to do whatever it took to get what she wanted.