devious Определение на русском языке

  • 0 clever in a way that is bad and not honest -- лукавый, изворотливый

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Examples of devious

  • We need to avoid these devious attempts at influencing.

  • I suppose that parliamentarians, by and large, are devious creatures.

  • The sordid saga of this wrangle with the parents, the company's devious efforts to discharge its moral responsibilities on the cheap, continues.

  • You have to meet all the tricks and devious practices which people engage in.

  • I am sorry that my route to the discussion of a narrow point was rather devious.

  • I suspect that that means that the proposals are devious and obscure.

  • The proposed new tax is unjustifiable, inefficient and devious—but, above all, it is unfair.

  • I am not being devious in saying that people will deliberately get round the provision.

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