All devious synonyms
deΒ·viΒ·ous
D d adj devious
- dishonest β not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- fraudulent β characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- duplicitous β marked or characterized by duplicity.
- wily β full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
- deceitful β If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- sneaky β like or suggestive of a sneak; furtive; deceitful.
- shrewd β astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- insidious β intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- insincere β not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
- sly β cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- calculating β If you describe someone as calculating, you disapprove of the fact that they deliberately plan to get what they want, often by hurting or harming other people.
- underhanded β underhand.
- circuitous β A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
- misleading β deceptive; tending to mislead.
- artful β If you describe someone as artful, you mean that they are clever and skilful at achieving what they want, especially by deceiving people.
- crooked β If you describe something as crooked, especially something that is usually straight, you mean that it is bent or twisted.
- double-dealing β duplicity; treachery; deception.
- fishy β like a fish in shape, smell, taste, or the like.
- foxy β foxlike; cunning or crafty; slyly clever.
- indirect β not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
- oblique β neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
- put on β a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- roundabout β circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- scheming β given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- shady β abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
- shifty β resourceful; fertile in expedients.
- surreptitious β obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- treacherous β characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- tricky β given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
- guileful β insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.
- sneaking β acting in a furtive or underhand way.
- obliquitous β the state of being oblique.
- ambiguous β If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
- bending β to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
- confusing β Something that is confusing makes it difficult for people to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- deviating β to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- obscure β (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- out-of-the-way β remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
- rambling β aimlessly wandering.
- remote β far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
- removed β remote; separate; not connected with; distinct from.
- serpentine β of, characteristic of, or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement.
- straying β to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
adjective devious
- designing β artful and scheming; conniving; crafty
- conniving β If you describe someone as conniving, you mean you dislike them because they make secret plans in order to get things for themselves or harm other people.
- machiavellian β of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- cunning β Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
- crafty β If you describe someone as crafty, you mean that they achieve what they want in a clever way, often by deceiving people.
- underhand β not open and aboveboard; secret and crafty or dishonorable: an underhand deal with the chief of police.
- meandering β to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.