'Devious' definitions:
Definition of 'devious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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: devious, oblique]
adjective
Characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes" [syn: devious, shifty]
adjective
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: devious, circuitous, roundabout]
Definition of 'Devious'
From: GCIDE
- Devious \De"vi*ous\, a. [L. devius; de + via way. See Viaduct.]
- 1. Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'devious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambagious,
- amoral,
- anfractuous,
- artful,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- balled up,
- bending,
- Byzantine,
- calculating,
- canny,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- conscienceless,
- convoluted,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crabbed,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- curving,
- daedal,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- designing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- diverting,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- errant,
- erratic,
- erring,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fouled up,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- helical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- implicated,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- knotted,
- knowing,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- lonesome,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- misleading,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- not kosher,
- O-shaped,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- pawky,
- perplexed,
- planetary,
- plotting,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- ramified,
- remote,
- removed,
- retired,
- rotary,
- rotten,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- scheming,
- screwed up,
- secret,
- secretive,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuous,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- snarled,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- swerving,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undirected,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- vulpine,
- wandering,
- wily,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- zigzag