How to Use devious in a Sentence

devious

adjective

• He took us by a devious route to the center of the city.
• The devising and devious edgelord can be chortling and laughing all the way to the bank.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• The ways may be devious, but teenagers are adept at finding them.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
• Be sure to take lots of devious snacks with you from Hobart.
  — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2018
• Just a hint of a smirk and perhaps a small twinkle in his eye as hints to his devious deed.
  — Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
• The devious plan to keep us all hooked on heating and cooking with gas.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 5 Apr. 2022
• Keep in mind though, 2020 has a devious sense of humor.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 2 Sep. 2020
• In the snapshot, the royal sports a gingham dress, dark clogs, and an adorably devious smile.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 26 Nov. 2018
• None of these can usurp the top position of that list from the devious aaloo methi.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz India, 26 Nov. 2019
• Not in the literal sense, but rather a meddler, a planter of devious seeds.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2022
• Hayward is a lot more devious than we at first thought.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• And the strategic defeat inflicted by the U.S. in the most devious way.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2021
• But the more devious challenge is keeping your mind focused on the finish line and not on the pain.
  — Brandon T. Harden, Philly.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Those devious Judys convince Ben to try to make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days and then steer him toward Andie.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2023
• Who else can keep up with Matt's constant devious plans?
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• Likewise, don’t fret too much about your own devious urges.
  — Erin Blakemore, Popular Science, 28 Sep. 2020
• Week 666, evidence of work of the Devil: How devious is the Trickster!
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
• These days the word rattlesnake is most likely to be applied to a crooked, devious person.
  — National Geographic, 26 June 2016
• These days the word rattlesnake is most likely to be applied to a crooked, devious person.
  — National Geographic, 26 June 2016
• Catherine set in motion a devious plan to lure the pretender princess to Russia.
  — National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
• With a new game in play, full of Jigsaw’s signature devious and deranged traps, the tables are now turned on the con artists.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 July 2023
• But life, in this case a devious grandfather and a meddlesome mother, gets in the way of their true love.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2022
• Mikkelsen voiced the character in Rebels' last two seasons, setting devious traps for the Ghost crew.
  — Danny Horn, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• From annoying mashers to devious white slavers, danger lurked in the shadows of the city streets.
  — Longreads, 10 Jan. 2018
• Cohn, as a devious young lawyer, had been the protégé of Joe McCarthy, during the anti-Communist witch hunts of the fifties.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
• The app Alarmy has a truly devious workaround for this impulse.
  — Audra Williams, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2019
• Their eyes are big and slightly devious—a signature of his work.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2021
• Claiming a mistake has been made on a devious action is also in the Paul and Lowry playbook.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2021
• The people who’d tried to scale the fences later formed a garden club with devious tendencies, helping to block some developers in our small coastal town and working to save our lagoon.
  — Anne Lamott, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
• This devious plan almost worked, but Vice President Mike Pence chose democracy over party and did the job that he was legally obligated to do.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024