Sentence examples for a devious enemy from inspiring English sources

They'd never faced such a devious enemy.

Finally, a truly devious enemy can prepare a young person to sniff out and avoid false or unreliable allies in adult life, when betrayals can be much more dangerous.

Cancer is a cunning and devious enemy.

Earlier in my childhood, food had often been an enemy, with a rationed scarcity that found a devious expression in the gristle of meat stews and ice cream made of unlikely ingredients, which once or twice made me ill.

Chapman introduced a devious private detective hired by one or more of Spindoe's many enemies.

Moving by a devious route, ultimately to the neighborhood of Williamsport, it had a series of successful engagements with the enemy's cavalry, at Monterey, Smithsburg, Hagerstown, and Boonsborough, destroying Ewell's wagon train and capturing 1,360 prisoners, one battle-flag, and a number of animals...

It was a devious little moment".

Schofield proved a devious career climber.

Then, with a devious grin, he obliged.

Sarao is hardly your idea of a devious financial mastermind.

This is, to put it charitably, a devious extrapolation.