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Devious

//ˈdiː.vi.əs//

Synonyms for "devious" (183 found)

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Informal (20)

Adj, adv, name, noun, prep, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(4 words)

side deep slick zigzag

Adj, adv, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, slang(2 words)

Adj, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, verb, slang(4 words)

loaded confounded screwed up messed up

Adj, slang(3 words)

shifty tricky shrewd

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(2 words)

sneaky lonesome

General use (163)

Adj, adv, noun, verb(4 words)

smooth false underhanded underhand

Adj, name, noun, verb(4 words)

dark serpentine winding bending

Adj, verb(22 words)

obscure corrupt confused elaborate twisted involved knotted crooked intricate crabbed removed perplexed convoluted retired calculating complicated matted corrupted tangled involuted

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entangled diverting

Adj, noun, verb(21 words)

subtle wandering complex secret rambling remote roundabout meandering indirect twisting oblique circular roving scheming misleading designing departing sneaking swerving backhand

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Adjective(4 words)

shifty roundabout oblique circuitous

Adj, noun(16 words)

erratic criminal vagrant deviant doubtful aberrant planetary byzantine rotary errant fishy left-handed vulpine orbital double-dealing sinistral

Adjective(66 words)

divergent slippery desultory sinister dubious labyrinthine deviative mazy unconscionable out-of-the-way shameless suspicious treacherous tortuous questionable snaky untrue dishonest deceptive insidious

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Noun, verb(5 words)

turning shifting veering plotting erring

Adj, noun, prep, verb(1 words)

Adj, adv, name(2 words)

Adj, adv(1 words)

Verb(10 words)

deviating implicated balled up mixed up mucked up snarled fouled up ramified loused up embrangled

Adj, adv, verb(1 words)

left handed not kosher without remorse ill-got without shame divagational

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