devious

Example Sentences

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The White House is breaking windows such that few will pay close attention to behavior that is more devious and self-serving.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now, as third baseman Max Muncy said with a devious grin from atop a makeshift stage in the Dodger Stadium outfield, “it’s starting to get a little bit comfortable up here. Let’s keep it going.”

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.

From The Wall Street Journal

The first page calls the team owners “narcissistic,” “devious” and “megalomaniacal capitalists,” and Mr. Smith has barely warmed up.

From The Wall Street Journal

Using the same paint to render George and Bertha, however, yields a devious kind of portrait.

From Salon