| Main Entry: | devious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, crafty |
Synonyms: |
artful, calculating, crooked, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, errant, erring, evasive, faking one out, fishy, foxy*, fraudulent, guileful, indirect, insidious, insincere, not straightforward, oblique, obliquitous, playing games, playing politics, put on, roundabout, scheming, shady, shifty, shrewd, sly, sneaking, sneaky, surreptitious, treacherous, tricky, underhanded, wily |
Antonyms: |
artless, frank, honest, open, straightforward, trustworthy, truthful |
| Main Entry: | oblique |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect, evasive |
Synonyms: |
backhanded, circuitous, circular, circumlocutory, collateral, devious, implied, obliquitous, obscure, roundabout, sidelong, vague |
| Notes: | oblique means slanting or inclined in direction or course or position - or misleading; opaque means not transmitting or reflecting light - or not clearly understood or expressed |
Antonyms: |
direct, forthright, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | roundabout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indirect |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, circuitous, circular, circumlocutory, collateral, deviating, devious, discursive, evasive, meandering, oblique, obliquitous, periphrastic, taking the long way, tortuous |
Antonyms: |
direct, honest, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | deviating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | divergent |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, aberrative, circuitous, devious, excursional, excursionary, excursive, heteroclite, obliquitous, parenthetical, serpentine, straying, tangent, tangential, tortuous |