In 2007, when talking about the failure of his second marriage, Hopkins is reported to have said: "I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive".
"On the one hand, he was appearing to engage with that program, but he kept secret what he was planning and plotting so we describe him as a lone actor," he said, describing Hassan as "devious and cunning".
Modeled after the famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, Eli is cunning, devious and ambitious, a gifted misuser of words that mislead and delude those who heed them.
(2.4.27-34) If, like More, Shakespeare airs some skepticism about the dental prodigy, he spares Richard little else in the way of villainy: his King is a cunning, devious, ruthless, vicious murderer.
Mr Ahern, whom his mentor, the late and now infamous former taoiseach, Charles Haughey, once described as "the most skilful, the most devious, the most cunning of them all", later apologised to the nation for his unacceptable behaviour.
His effectiveness as a mediator and catalyst and his abhorrence of confrontation prompted his mentor, former Prime Minister Charles Haughey, to describe him as "the most devious, the most cunning, the most ruthless of them all".
The more subtle performance comes from Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past), who gives the War Boy named Nux a cunning, devious side and an innocence that makes him more complex than the rest.
Cancer is a cunning and devious enemy.
Moral: beware the devious, the slippery, the cunning Canadian.
Martin Luther called the Turk a "cunning, cruel, devious, impetuous murderer"; such stereotypes are not easily overcome.
