Devious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEVIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• indirect
• showing a skilful use of underhand tactics to achieve goals
• (of a route or journey) longer and less direct than the most straightforward way
• insincere and dishonest
• Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.
• Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.
• indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
• characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive
• deviating from a straight course

Words related to DEVIOUS

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How to use DEVIOUS in a sentence

• I traveled in divers directions and devious ways until nearly overcome with fatigue and hunger, when I suddenly came upon a newly erected log cabin.
• By some devious route, which I was unable to retrace for my return, I was thus able to mount, without interruption, to the highest point of land.
• From this place, by two days of very leisurely and devious journeying, we reached Chicago, and thus ended a journey, which one at least of the party might have wished unending.
• In the village they had become the guides of the Tahitians in the devious path of enforced civilization.
• Having plenty of time before us, we chose devious and little frequented roads, the deserters who led us being fortunately familiar with the district.
• The emissaries of the Automaton led him by devious winding paths down to the shore, and, half walking, half running, pressing close to the high cliffs, they urged him forward.
• We bade this agreeable lady farewell, and returned down the heights, and through the devious paths by which we had ascended, While talk of various kind deceived the road.
• After our young trooper had followed the devious course of this rough pathway for several miles, he suddenly came to a halt, and stood spellbound.
• They coveted Swaziland, Zululand, Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, Mashonaland, and Tongaland, and set to work by devious methods to establish claims to these countries.
• In spite of his devious game here on Jumala, Hume was Guild educated and Rynch was willing to leave such decisions to him.
• Chapter XIII At the Spring The path across the fields is so well worn that one can find his way along its devious course by night almost as easily as by day.
• He was off somewhere, safe in the devious lanes and burrows of the native city.
• Its course is devious, And will not come when desired.
• Any devious routes to the accomplishment of an object should be avoided.
• A devious course the rider took, for the road was blocked in a dozen places, and every ravine and hollow was packed to the brim with snow.
• By the devious route they were compelled to take the distance was doubled, more than doubled.
• Yet it draws sometimes from the original source of inspiration, and attains, by devious ways, to poetic glories not inferior to the old.
• Then, by devious and circuitous routes, with frequent rests, the horse takes you up.
• He could follow the devious lines of history when Henry would much rather have been following the devious trail of a deer.
• Looking back upon our track, it proves to be like all other human paths, straight in intention, but slightly devious in deed.
• We pursued our way, however, and a devious one it must have been.
• The trail he had followed for miles was the devious trail of hunting Indians, stealing slowly and stealthily along watching for their prey, whether it be man or beast.
• Long and patiently have I marked your footsteps, Weng Cho, and they are devious.
• I sought the Continent, and went devious through all its lands.
• Annie-Many-Ponies, woman-wily though she was by nature, had little learning in the devious ways of lovemaking.
• Not the civil engineer, but the railroad promoter determined the devious lines of many a railroad on the level prairies of America.
• The islands lay conveniently close together, which necessitated careful steering as we threaded the devious and intricate channels that separated them.
• Out of the innocent enough statement there grew a long, devious argument.
• The Boers had been watching him, and as he recommenced his devious course they sent two bullets through a bush two feet in front of him.

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