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devious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of devious

1 clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means
  • we always left it to our most devious friends to find out the latest information
Synonyms of devious

artful, beguiling, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodgy [chiefly British], foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
Words Related to devious

astute, facile, glib, sharp

crooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulous

backhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-faced

circuitous, circular, roundabout

clandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover

calculating, plotting
Near Antonyms of devious

obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealed

aboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnished

childlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly

unforced, unstudied

trustful, trusting
Antonyms of devious

artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning
2 marked by a long series of irregular curves
  • a devious trail through the swampland
Synonyms of devious

bending, crazy, crooked, curled, curling, curved, curving, curvy, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, winding, windy
Words Related to devious

zigzag, zigzagging

circling, coiled, coiling, corkscrew, looping, spiral, spiraling (or spiralling), swirling

circuitous, indirect, roundabout

meandering, rambling, wandering

irregular, jagged, uneven
Near Antonyms of devious

direct, linear
Antonyms of devious

straight, straightaway
3 departing from some accepted standard of what is normal
  • her behavior is devious because of a developmental disorder
Synonyms of devious

aberrant, aberrational, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, deviant, deviate, irregular, unnatural, untypical
Words Related to devious

unrepresentative

extraordinary, preternatural

rare, uncommon, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted

bizarre, curious, far-out, funny, kinky, odd, outlandish, out-of-the-way, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, remarkable, screwy, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild

eccentric, freakish, idiosyncratic, nonconformist, unconventional, unorthodox

extraordinary, preternatural

rare, uncommon, uncustomary, unusual, unwonted

odd, peculiar, strange
Near Antonyms of devious

common, commonplace, everyday, familiar, ordinary, routine, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine (or run-of-mine), unexceptional, unremarkable, workaday

customary, usual, wonted

archetypal (also archetypical), average, characteristic, representative
Antonyms of devious

natural, normal, regular, standard, typical

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