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Devious - 20 thesaurus results
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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