Sentence examples for as devious from inspiring English sources

"I thought, Wow, cool -- this guy is as devious as I am".

But the more he rhymes, the more slyly affectionate he sounds, as if he can't help but admire a woman who is almost as devious as he is.

So the Lib Dems used the number of councillors in the area covered by the parliamentary constituency and came up with this: This is as devious as it is contrived.

The album is neither as contagious as "Get Rich or Die Tryin' " (apparently it's possible to have an entire album stuck in your head) nor as devious as "The Massacre" (which included "A Baltimore Love Thing," an ode to a junkie delivered in the voice of heroin).

In a series of gossipy, increasingly manic rants delivered over a six-week period in a variety of settings – at a wake; on the phone; driving to the cemetery for Olga Maria's funeral – Laura floats her theories and quickly proves herself to be as devious as she is paranoid.

As historian Perry Miller wrote, "Griswold was about as devious as they came in this era of deviousness; did not ample documentation prove that he actually existed, we might suppose him ... one of the less plausible inventions of Charles Dickens".

Here, you can be as cunt, as dick, as morally devious as you can – and there will still be an arsehole who is more wrong than you.

The process is severe for a purpose: dealing with a type of criminal that society regards as dangerous, devious and manipulative.

Clare Boothe Luce (Sarah Wynter) was a friend, who in this telling comes off as decidedly devious, as does Hopkins (Mark La Mura).

Tactics were devious as well as brutal, with one side often impersonating the other as they carried out kidnappings and extortion.

Sessions could be devious as well as stormy".