devious

Signification (Anglais)

1. Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
2. (archaic) Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route.

Concepts

tortueux

rusé

fourbe

roublard

trompeur

sournois

détourné

cauteleux

futé

maligne

surnois

coquin

carrefour giratoire

malin

matois

oblique

retors

rusée

sinueux

Synonymes

deceitful

sly

cunning

roundabout

circuitous

shifty

oblique

rogue

treacherous

duplicitous

treachery

tricky

deceptive

underhanded

slanting

crafty

indirect

wily

insidious

sneaky

sidelong

deceiving

tortuous

perfidious

disingenuous

aberrant

digressive

cockeyed

dexterous

discrepant

deviate

circular

aslant

deviant

delusory

degenerate

insincere

bevel

askew

anomalous

huggermugger

heinous

bastardly

gyratory

false

deadpan

fallacious

kinky

lateral

faithless

Traductions

ambiguo

abwegig

errato

verschlagen

astuto

tortuoso

avare

subdolo

خادع

πλάγιος

traverso

murri

desviado

çapraşık

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈdiː.vi.əs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

1590s, "out of the common or direct way," from Latin devius (“out of the way, remote, off the main road”), from de via, from de (“off”) (see de-) + via (“way, road”). Compare deviate. Originally in the Latin literal sense; the figurative sense of "deceitful" is first recorded 1630s. Related to deviously, deviousness. Figurative senses of the Latin word were "retired, sequestered, wandering in the byways, foolish, inconsistent."