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devious

/ˈdiːvɪəs/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈdiːvɪəs/
devious
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

de - vious -> devious

Myanmar meaning

(adj) မရိုးသားသော။ မဖြောင့်မတ်သော။ စဉ်းလသော။ (လမ်း) ကွေ့ပတ်သော။ မဖြောင့်မတန်း သွယ်ဝိုက်သော။

Full entry

devious /'di:viǝs/ adj

၁။ မရိုးသားသော။ မဖြောင့်မတ်သော။ စဉ်းလဲသော။
a devious lawyer/scheme/trick ❍ get rich by devious means.
၂။ (လမ်း) ကွေ့ပတ်သော။ မဖြောင့်မတန်း သွယ်ဝိုက်သော။
The main road was blocked so we came by a rather devious route. deviously adv deviousness n [U]

More examples
  • A devious plot to overthrow the government
  • He’s devious, self-centred and arrogant.
  • A devious route through the city
Synonyms
deceitful, tricky, scheming, designing, wily, underhanded, conniving, Machiavellian, sneaky, cunning, crafty, sly, ambiguous, artful, bending, calculating, circuitous, confounding, confusing, crooked, crooked; indirect, curving, detouring, deviating, digressing, digressory, dishonest, diverting, double dealing, double-dealing, duplicitous, errant, erratic, erring, evasive, excursive, faking one out, fishy, flexuous, foxy, fraudulent, guileful, indirect, insidious, insincere, meandering, misleading, not straightforward, oblique, obliquitous, obscure, out-of-the-way, phoniness, playing games, playing politics, put on, rambling, remote, removed, roundabout, serpentine, shady, shifty, shrewd, sneaking, straying, surreptitious, tortuous, treacherous, twisting, underhand, wandering, winding
Antonyms
aboveboard, artless, direct, fair, forthright, frank, honest, naive, on the up, on the up and up, on up and up, open, overtly, sincere, straight, straightforward, trustworthy, truthful, veraciously
Cross references
deceitfultrickyschemingdesigningwilyunderhandedconnivingMachiavelliansneakycunningcraftyslyambiguousartfulbendingcalculatingcircuitousconfoundingconfusingcrookedcrooked; indirectcurvingdetouringdeviatingdigressingdigressorydishonestdiverting
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