DEVIOUSLY Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

deviously

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as in circuitously

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as in artfully

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Recent Examples of deviously Bone dry and deviously stupid, Cunk talks to experts, academics, and historians about all manner of topics, absorbing absolutely none of it. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026 And could a second season, sans the extraordinary talents of Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, deliver a story and themes in keeping with that brand, without sullying what was so deviously tricky about the original series and its tone? — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026 Both the Death Note manga and this 37-episode adaptation are staggeringly original and deviously entertaining, a brilliant, gory dark comedy that fully capitalizes on its premise. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025 DeSantis deviously gave the GOP four more districts, putting Democrats at a 20 to 8 disadvantage. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025

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Adverb

This one made its way to me very circuitously and then all at once!

— Liza Lentini, SPIN, 24 July 2026
Inside, the floor plan flows circuitously, creating an open plan filled with natural light.

— Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of circuitously

Adverb

His bed, once artfully tussled, is a feat of military-tight corners.

— Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 16 Oct. 2026
While posing artfully in the store’s shop window, Klara catches the eye of Josie (Mia Tharia), who persuades her mother Chrissie (Amy Adams) to buy her as a companion.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of artfully

Adverb

For the final event, Tommerup plans to do something deceptively simple.

— Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
The paper, led by a researcher named Evan Hubinger, described an experiment in which Anthropic’s team had deliberately trained AI models to behave deceptively.

— Kevin Roose, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of deceptively

Adverb

Comans had filed a lawsuit in July 2025 that challenged her removal and argued that DHS and FEMA harmed her reputation by falsely accusing her of funneling millions of dollars to New York City for the hotels.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
In 2025, for example, a Georgia court dismissed a defamation lawsuit against OpenAI after its ChatGPT tool falsely accused Mark Walters, a radio host, of embezzlement.

— Kaitlin Newkirk, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of falsely

Adverb

Jacob goes to Isaac with this hairy disguise, deceitfully announces himself as Esau, and obtains his father’s blessing—much to the chagrin of his brother.

— Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026
To help fill their coffers even more, the lobbyists deceitfully expanded the definition of those notch years to include everyone born through 1926.

— Tom Margenau, Dallas Morning News, 1 Feb. 2026

Definition of deceitfully

Adverb

This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel.

— Jack Dunn, Variety, 22 Aug. 2026
In that lawsuit, State Farm said that the record only showed a disagreement over the cause of roof damage, and that there was no evidence the company had acted dishonestly.

— Michael Copley, NPR, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of dishonestly

Adverb

The idea might seem clever, as if the artist has cannily illustrated how the lovey-dovey notion of romance and family is hokey, brain-dead, false.

— Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
In her depiction of the exhausting vigilance this reality required, through a second-person voice cannily implicating her reader, Rankine created a new language to identify a problem as old as the United States.

— Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of cannily

Adverb

Fungi can artificially inflate the price by hoarding the phosphorus in their network and then driving the price of it, waiting basically until the plant is able to provide more carbon in return.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
Defensive capabilities ‘artificially restricted’ That information deficit has been compounded by Elon Musk’s Starlink curbing some internet services in Ukraine, according to local officials.

— Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

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