0 in a way that is dishonest or tricks people, but is often also clever and successful:
They argue that the operation is deviously designed to lower wages.
She was behaving deviously towards him.
In potentially dangerous or uncertain circumstances, it would be best to anticipate and fear the worst of all likely possibilities: presence of a deviously intelligent predator.
It is well planned and deviously carried out.
Inevitably, in circumstances involving the illegal adoption of children or of bringing children into this country to adopt them improperly, people will have behaved deviously.
The private sector has been expanded both openly through the assisted places scheme and deviously with schools being encouraged to be selective by back-door methods.
That is not government acting deviously in any way whatsoever.
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