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| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, crafty |
| Synonyms: | artful, calculating, crooked, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, errant, erring, evasive, fishy*, foxy*, fraudulent, indirect, insidious, insincere, oblique, put on, roundabout, scheming, shady, shifty, shrewd, sly, sneaky, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily, faking one out, guileful, not straightforward, obliquitous, playing games, playing politics, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | artless, frank, honest, open, straightforward, trustworthy, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked; indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, bending, circuitous, confusing, deviating, errant, erratic, excursive, misleading, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, remote, removed, roundabout, serpentine, straying, tortuous, wandering, confounding, curving, detouring, digressing, digressory, diverting, flexuous, twisting |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight |
| Main Entry: | calculating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scheming to manipulate |
| Synonyms: | Machiavellian, artful, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, crafty, cunning, designing, devious, discreet, gingerly, guarded, intelligent, politic, safe, scheming, sharp, shrewd, sly, wary, wily, contriving, guileful, manipulative, premeditating |
| Antonyms: | artless, naive, unassuming, uncalculating |
| Main Entry: | circuitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | going around, indirect |
| Synonyms: | back road, circular, collateral, complicated, devious, labyrinthine, meandering, oblique, rambling, roundabout, tortuous, ambagious, by way of, long way, long way around, winding around |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, in line |
| Main Entry: | crafty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, scheming |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, foxy*, fraudulent, insidious, intelligent, keen, knowing, sharp, shrewd, slick, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth, street smart*, subtle, tricky, vulpine, wily, crazy like fox, guileful, streetwise |
| Antonyms: | honest, naive, unclever |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | designing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plotting, crafty |
| Synonyms: | Machiavellian, artful, astute, crooked, cunning, deceitful, devious, heedful, intriguing, observant, scheming, sharp, shrewd, sly, treacherous, tricky, unscrupulous, wily, conniving, conspiring |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, artless, honest, unplanned, not clever |
| Main Entry: | deviant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abnormal, different |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bent, devious, divergent, heretical, irregular, kinky, off-key, perverse, perverted, preternatural, queer, twisted, unorthodox, untypical, variant, varying, wandering, wayward, weird, freaky, heteroclite, unrepresentative |
| Antonyms: | normal, regular, standard, usual |
| Main Entry: | dishonorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shameful, corrupt |
| Synonyms: | base, contemptible, crooked, deceitful, despicable, devious, disgraceful, disreputable, fraudulent, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, low, miscreant, offensive, putrid, scandalous, shabby, shady, treacherous, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, blackguardly, discreditable, opprobious, unrespectable |
| Antonyms: | blameless, ethical, honorable, respectable, trustworthy, worthy, principled, uncorrupt |
| Main Entry: | errant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; deviant |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, deviating, devious, erratic, erring, fallible, heretic, meandering, mischievous, miscreant, naughty, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, sinning, stray, straying, unorthodox, unreliable, wandering, wayward, drifting, errable, misbehaving, off straight and narrow, offending, shifting |
| Notes: | an errand is a short trip that is taken for a specific purpose; arrant means thoroughgoing - downright - out-and-out - extreme - notorious; errant means wandering or roving especially in search of adventure - deviating or straying from an appointed course - straying from the proper standards - moving aimlessly or irregularly |
| Antonyms: | correct, righteous |
| Main Entry: | erratic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpredictable; wandering |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bizarre, capricious, changeable, desultory, devious, dicey, dubious, eccentric, fitful, flaky*, idiosyncratic, iffy*, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, meandering, mercurial, nomadic, oddball*, peculiar, planetary, rambling, roving, spasmodic, strange, stray, uncertain, unnatural, unreliable, unstable, unusual, variable, volatile, wayward, weird, whimsical, directionless, fluctuant, shifting, undirected, vagarious |
| Antonyms: | certain, consistent, definite, dependable, predictable, regular, reliable, steady, sure, unchanging |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | evasive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, tricky |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, cagey, cunning, deceptive, devious, elusive, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, shifty, slippery, sly, unclear, vague, casuistic, casuistical, dissembling, elusory, equivocating, prevaricating, shuffling, sophistical, stonewalling |
| Antonyms: | direct, forthright, honest, ready, straight, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | foxy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shrewd |
| Synonyms: | artful, astute, canny, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deep, devious, dishonest, experienced, insidious, intelligent, knowing, sharp, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, vulpine, wily, guileful, retiary |
| Antonyms: | naive, unintelligent, unclever, unsmart |
| Main Entry: | fraudulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | counterfeit, crafty, criminal, crooked, deceitful, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing*, duplicitous, fake, forged, mock, phony, pseudo, sham*, spurious, treacherous, tricky, bamboozling, swindling |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, honest, real, valid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indirect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | roundabout; unintended |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ancillary, circuitous, circular, collateral, complicated, contingent, crooked, devious, discursive, duplicitous, erratic, eventual, implied, incidental, long, long-winded*, meandering, oblique, obscure, out-of-the-way, rambling, secondary, serpentine*, sinister, sinuous, sneaky, subsidiary, tortuous, underhand, vagrant, wandering, winding, zigzag, circumlocutory, long way home, long-drawn-out, periphrastic, sidelong, snaking, sneaking, twisting |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, straightforward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insincere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, pretended |
| Synonyms: | backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake, false, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, phony, pretentious, shifty, slick, sly, snide, two-faced*, unfaithful, untrue, untruthful, ambidextrous, dissembling, dissimulating, put-on |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, open, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | Machiavellian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scheming |
| Synonyms: | artful, astute, calculating, crafty, cunning, deceitful, devious, expedient, opportunist, shrewd, sly, underhanded, unscrupulous, wily, conniving, contriving, plotting |
| Main Entry: | roundabout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, circuitous, circular, collateral, deviating, devious, discursive, evasive, meandering, oblique, tortuous, circumlocutory, obliquitous, periphrastic, taking the long way |
| Antonyms: | direct, honest, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | shifty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, untrustworthy |
| Synonyms: | cagey, collusive, crafty, crooked, cunning, devious, dishonest, duplicitous, elusive, evasive, fly-by-night*, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, insidious, lying, mendacious, roguish, scheming, shady, shrewd, slick, slimy*, slippery, sly, sneaky, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unprincipled, untruthful, wily, conniving, contriving, dodging, equivocating, prevaricative, prevaricatory, shuffling, unhonest |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, trustworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sinuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding, twisting |
| Synonyms: | circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, devious, indirect, meandering, serpentine, snaky*, supple, tortuous, undulating, vagrant, anfractuous, coiling, curvy, deviative, flexuous, meandrous, twisting and turning |
| Antonyms: | straight, untwisted, unwinding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sneaky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | underhanded, dishonest |
| Synonyms: | base, contemptible, cowardly, deceitful, devious, disingenuous, double-dealing*, duplicitous, furtive, indirect, low, malicious, mean, nasty, recreant, secretive, shifty, slippery, sly, snide, stealthy, surreptitious, tricky, underhand, unreliable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, yellow*, guileful, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, candid, forthright, frank, honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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