Synonym: circuitous, oblique, roundabout, shifty. Similar words: previous, previously, obvious, envious, oblivious, obviously, impervious, lascivious. Meaning: ['diːvjəs] 
adj. 1. indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading 2. characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive 3. deviating from a straight course.
adj. 1. indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading 2. characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive 3. deviating from a straight course. 
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1 Let's take the devious route home.
2 You have to be a bit devious if you're going to succeed in business.
3 She led him by devious ways to the meeting place.
4 His devious nature was shown in half-lies and small dishonesties.
5 She is devious and sly and manipulative.
6 He got rich by devious means.
7 He has a very devious mind.
8 He had been devious and two-faced.
9 Her saintly manner concealed a devious mind.
10 He was as devious as his adversary was ruthless.
11 Newman was devious,(www.Sentencedict.com) prepared to say one thing in print and another in private.
12 He's a devious, secret person and I don't trust him.
13 Susan is a devious person and we can't depend on her.
14 He took a rather devious route which avoids the city centre.
15 The coach followed a rather devious course to its destination.
16 She says we have devious minds!
17 Devious himself, he admired the same quality in her.
18 O'Rourke has a very devious mind.
19 Or was it as devious as that?
20 If that sounds calculating and devious, consider the alternatives.
21 Opportunism is a devious kind of self-interested behaviour.
22 Why should women resort to such devious tactics?
23 However, the tactics have become more devious.
24 He might be devious, but he was not without principles.
25 This practice had a curiously devious origin, in a supposed antagonism between epilepsy and schizophrenia.
26 Lydia recalled with devious glee how Father Maier had been plagued by diarrhea on a previous trip.
27 He is a vain, devious showman accused of bribery, tax evasion, fraud and mafia connections.
28 Our enemies are different now; subtler, more devious than ever before.
29 Or, like any fallible human sinner, was he desperately constructing an armour of simplicity about his devious shiftings?
30 The rapist who wins women's trust and then abuses them is a more sophisticated, devious and frightening operator.
More similar words: previous, previously, obvious, envious, oblivious, obviously, impervious, lascivious, deviant, deviate, devise, device, daredevil, vaudeville, saviour, devil's advocate, behaviour, rhetorical device, misbehaviour, device characteristic, pious, odious, curious, copious, dubious, anxious, noxious, tedious, vicious, various.