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.