DEVIOUS Synonyms

• not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness

• marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft

• acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end

• acting with a specific goal

• marked by skill in deception

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

• attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

• marked by skill in deception

• showing inventiveness and skill

• involving deception

• marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another

• deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

• capable of being corrupted

• marked by skill in deception

• skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage

• acting with a specific goal

• concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest

• a slippery smoothness

• a magazine printed on good quality paper

• a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water

• a trowel used to make a surface slick

• made slick by e.g. ice or grease

• superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject

• having only superficial plausibility

• having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk

• marked by skill in deception

• make slick or smooth

• give a smooth and glossy appearance

• marked by skill in deception

• marked by deception

• marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed

• difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

• able to make fine distinctions

• working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

• not to be trusted

• having concealed difficulty

• marked by skill in deception

• with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level

• marked by deception

• without scruples or principles

• marked by skill in deception

• marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct

• deviating from a straight course

• slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled

• any grammatical case other than the nominative

• a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso

• indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading