"devious" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈdiː.vi.əs/ Forms: more devious [comparative], most devious [superlative]
Rhymes: -iːviəs Etymology: 1590s, "out of the common or direct way," from Latin devius (“out of the way, remote, off the main road”), from de via, from de (“off”) (see de-) + via (“way, road”). Compare deviate. Originally in the Latin literal sense; the figurative sense of "deceitful" is first recorded 1630s. Related to deviously, deviousness. Figurative senses of the Latin word were "retired, sequestered, wandering in the byways, foolish, inconsistent." Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|devius||out of the way, remote, off the main road}} Latin devius (“out of the way, remote, off the main road”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} devious (comparative more devious, superlative most devious)
  1. Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank. Translations (cunning or deceiving, not straightforward): нече́стен (nečésten) (Bulgarian), неи́скрен (neískren) (Bulgarian), heimelijk (Dutch), onoprecht (Dutch), kronkelend (Dutch), ruza (Esperanto), trompema (Esperanto), firuza (Esperanto), kiero (Finnish), katala (Finnish), petollinen (Finnish), rusé (French), roublard [masculine] (French), sournois [masculine] (French), heimtückisch (German), hinterrücks (German), unaufrichtig (German), verschlagen (German), durchtrieben (German), hinterhältig (German), doppelzüngig (German), link (German), עַרְמוּמִי (Hebrew), insidiose (Interlingua), кова́рный (kovárnyj) (Russian), нече́стный (nečéstnyj) (Russian), неи́скренний (neískrennij) (Russian), хи́трый (xítryj) (Russian), artero (Spanish), taimado (Spanish), engañoso (Spanish), marrullero (Spanish), sinsi (Turkish), хитрий (xytryj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), підступний (pidstupnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), כיטרע (khitre) (Yiddish), ממזריש (mamzerish) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-devious-en-adj-fiIj55ne Disambiguation of 'cunning or deceiving, not straightforward': 96 4
  2. Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route. Translations (roundabout, circuitous, deviating): око́лен (okólen) (Bulgarian), лъкату́шен (lǎkatúšen) (Bulgarian), непря́к (neprják) (Bulgarian), epäsuora (Finnish), kiertävä (Finnish), kiertelevä (Finnish), abwegig (German), indirekt (German), krumm (German), gewunden (German), око́льный (okólʹnyj) (Russian), непрямо́й (neprjamój) (Russian), tortuoso (Spanish), непрямий (neprjamyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), звивистий (zvyvystyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: devious lick, deviously, deviousness, undevious
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          "text": "The wandering Arab never sets his tent\nWithin her walls; the Shepherd eyes afar\nHer evil towers, and devious drives his flock.",
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  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "devius",
        "4": "",
        "5": "out of the way, remote, off the main road"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin devius (“out of the way, remote, off the main road”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "1590s, \"out of the common or direct way,\" from Latin devius (“out of the way, remote, off the main road”), from de via, from de (“off”) (see de-) + via (“way, road”). Compare deviate. Originally in the Latin literal sense; the figurative sense of \"deceitful\" is first recorded 1630s. Related to deviously, deviousness. Figurative senses of the Latin word were \"retired, sequestered, wandering in the byways, foolish, inconsistent.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more devious",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most devious",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "devious (comparative more devious, superlative most devious)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Cunning",
          "cunning"
        ],
        [
          "deceiving",
          "deceiving"
        ],
        [
          "straightforward",
          "straightforward"
        ],
        [
          "honest",
          "honest"
        ],
        [
          "frank",
          "frank"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The wandering Arab never sets his tent\nWithin her walls; the Shepherd eyes afar\nHer evil towers, and devious drives his flock.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1839, Frederick Marryat, The Phantom Ship:",
          "text": "Keeping close in to the shore, they discovered, after two hours run, a fresh stream which burst in a cascade from the mountains, and swept its devious course through the jungle, until it poured its tribute into the waters of the Strait.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:",
          "text": "We went down accordingly into the waste, and began to make our toilsome and devious travel towards the eastern verge.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Epilogue”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Roundabout",
          "roundabout"
        ],
        [
          "circuitous",
          "circuitous"
        ],
        [
          "deviating",
          "deviate"
        ],
        [
          "direct",
          "direct"
        ],
        [
          "ordinary",
          "ordinary"
        ],
        [
          "route",
          "route"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdiː.vi.əs/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːviəs"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nečésten",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "нече́стен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neískren",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "неи́скрен"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "heimelijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "onoprecht"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "kronkelend"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "ruza"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "trompema"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "firuza"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "kiero"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "katala"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "petollinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "rusé"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "roublard"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sournois"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "heimtückisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "hinterrücks"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "unaufrichtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "verschlagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "durchtrieben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "hinterhältig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "doppelzüngig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "link"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "עַרְמוּמִי"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "insidiose"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kovárnyj",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "кова́рный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nečéstnyj",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "нече́стный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neískrennij",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "неи́скренний"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xítryj",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "хи́трый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "artero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "taimado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "engañoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "marrullero"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "sinsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xytryj",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хитрий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pidstupnyj",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "підступний"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "khitre",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "כיטרע"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "mamzerish",
      "sense": "cunning or deceiving, not straightforward",
      "word": "ממזריש"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "okólen",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "око́лен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "lǎkatúšen",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "лъкату́шен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neprják",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "непря́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "epäsuora"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "kiertävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "kiertelevä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "abwegig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "indirekt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "krumm"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "gewunden"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "okólʹnyj",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "око́льный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neprjamój",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "непрямо́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "word": "tortuoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "neprjamyj",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "непрямий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zvyvystyj",
      "sense": "roundabout, circuitous, deviating",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "звивистий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "devious"
}

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