devious

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Tamma tiptoes “up climbs with body english and devious footwork”; she clings to fingerholds the size of molars; a fall sees her come “cheesegrating” down a slab.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

I prefer to think of it as a solid cargo ship delivering inciting devices, as in the lethal xenomorphs engineered by Michael Fassbender’s devious android David 8.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025

The player gets played only when Dawson is challenged by a trickster even more devious than her.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2025

"I think he is a devious and Machiavellian individual," Commander Southworth told the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

Whatsoever, it was like entering a scene which, because of some devious circumstance, I had hitherto watched only from a distance.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison