Sentence examples for devious behaviour from inspiring English sources

More than 50,000 retweets and likes later, and following yet more devious behaviour by the Real Madrid defender, Lineker clarified his position.

The fantasy of the game is sometimes tied up in nationalistic passions (especially in Eastern Europe, where the game is most popular), and players from various countries have engaged in devious behaviour in the past in this vein.

It has been hypothesized that rGE plays an important role in the continuity of devious behaviour over time [ 18].

I engaged in devious, risky behaviour, I was very guarded and felt lost.

It begins with the break-up of the marriage and moves anti-chronologically back over seven years of devious, self-deceiving behaviour to the point at which the seeds of adultery were sown in a drunken pass at a party.

Hodge recalled Brittin to give evidence to the committee, and concluded that the company's behaviour was "devious, calculated and, in my view, unethical".

The new-ish Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) could not have hoped for a plainer case of chiselling, devious and code-breaking behaviour by a supermarket.

There is a conceptual barrier to understanding the problems that officials might face in regulating crowdfunding, owing to the failure of prevailing economic models to account for the manipulative and devious aspects of human behaviour.

Catherine reckons that such behaviour is another devious way of raising premiums.

The modern historian Frank Barlow says of him that "It was probably because he was so self-righteous that it could be suggested that his behaviour was sometimes devious".

She told Brittin his company's behaviour on tax was "devious, calculated and unethical".