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devious
Synonyms and Antonyms of devious
1
clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means
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
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marked by a long series of irregular curves
3
departing from some accepted standard of what is normal
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
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