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devious [dee-vee-uhs]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest, crafty
Synonyms: artful, calculating, crooked, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, errant, erring, evasive, faking one out, fishy, foxy*, fraudulent, guileful, indirect, insidious, insincere, not straightforward, oblique, obliquitous, playing games, playing politics, put on, roundabout, scheming, shady, shifty, shrewd, sly, sneaking, sneaky, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily
Antonyms: artless, frank, honest, open, straightforward, trustworthy, truthful
Main Entry: calculating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: scheming to manipulate
Synonyms: Machiavellian, artful, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, contriving, crafty, cunning, designing, devious, discreet, gingerly, guarded, guileful, intelligent, manipulative, politic, premeditating, safe, scheming, sharp, shrewd, sly, wary, wily
Antonyms: artless, naive, unassuming, uncalculating
Main Entry: circuitous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: going around, indirect
Synonyms: ambagious, back road, by way of, circular, collateral, complicated, devious, labyrinthine, long way, long way around, meandering, oblique, rambling, roundabout, tortuous, winding around
Antonyms: direct, in line, straight
Main Entry: crafty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever, scheming
Synonyms: adroit, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, crazy like fox, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, foxy*, fraudulent, guileful, insidious, intelligent, keen, knowing, sharp, shrewd, slick, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth, street smart, streetwise, subtle, tricky, vulpine, wily
Antonyms: honest, naive, unclever
Main Entry: crooked
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bent, angled
Synonyms: agee, anfractuous, angular, asymmetric, awry, bowed, catawampus, circuitous, cockeyed, contorted, crippled, curved, curving, deformed, deviating, devious, disfigured, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, incurving, indirect, irregular, kinky, knurly, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, not straight, oblique, out of shape, rambling, roundabout, screwy, serpentine, sinuous, skewed, slanted, snaky, spiral, tilted, topsy-turvy, tortile, tortuous, twisted, twisting, uneven, warped, winding, zigzag
Antonyms: straight
Main Entry: crooked
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: evil, corrupt
Synonyms: crafty, criminal, deceitful, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, dubious, fraudulent, illegal, indirect, iniquitous, lying, nefarious, questionable, ruthless, shady, shifty, suborned, treacherous, underhand, unlawful, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untruthful
Antonyms: good, honest, law-abiding, lawful, moral
Main Entry: designing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: plotting, crafty
Synonyms: Machiavellian, artful, astute, conniving, conspiring, crooked, cunning, deceitful, devious, heedful, intriguing, observant, scheming, sharp, shrewd, sly, treacherous, tricky, unscrupulous, wily
Antonyms: aboveboard, artless, honest, not clever, unplanned
Main Entry: deviant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abnormal, different
Synonyms: aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bent, devious, divergent, freaky, heretical, heteroclite, irregular, kinky, off-key, perverse, perverted, preternatural, queer, twisted, unorthodox, unrepresentative, untypical, variant, varying, wandering, wayward, weird
Antonyms: normal, regular, standard, usual
Main Entry: dishonorable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: shameful, corrupt
Synonyms: base, blackguardly, contemptible, crooked, deceitful, despicable, devious, discreditable, disgraceful, disreputable, fraudulent, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, low, miscreant, offensive, opprobious, putrid, scandalous, shabby, shady, treacherous, unprincipled, unrespectable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy
Antonyms: blameless, ethical, honorable, principled, respectable, trustworthy, uncorrupt, worthy
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