devious
Meaning of devious
adjective
- Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank
- Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route
Information about devious
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Hyphenation of devious
de-vi-ous
- It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
- devious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
devious synonyms
Meaning oblique:
Meaning shifty:
Meaning circuitous:
Translation of devious
- Spanish: oblicuo, sesgado, sesgada, oblicua, tortuoso, tortuosa, sinuoso, sinuosa, ladino, engañoso, taimado, taimada, ladina
- French: oblique, détourné, tortueux, sinueux, retors, sournois, trompeur, fourbe
- Italian: indiretto, ambiguo, tortuoso, sinuoso, subdolo, ingannevole, sleale
- German: unaufrichtig, unredlich, abwegig, hinterlistig, hinterhältig, verschlagen, zwielichtig
- Portuguese: desleal
Words that rhyme with devious
aerobious, amphibious, anaerobious, antiscabious, dubious, helobious, hematobious, indubious, microbious, nonamphibious, rabious, rubious, scabious, stibious, superbious, superdubious, triphibious, undubious, Delicious, Procious, acinacious, ametoecious, androdioecious, andromonoecious, appendicious, artificious, astucious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, autecious, autoecious, avaricious, bibacious, bodacious, boldacious, bowdacious, capacious, capricious, cilicious, coconscious, cogracious, conconscious, conscious, contumacious, curvacious, delicious, dicacious, diecious, dioecious
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