Sentence examples for devious from from inspiring English sources

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Despite its emphasis on deception, dislocation and the loss of love, her book retains a cheery consistency: It has managed to be sunnily devious from the start.

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This summer, that includes quite a few of the more noteworthy or popular series: "The Bridge" from FX, "Twisted" and "The Fosters" from ABC Family, "Graceland" from USA, "Longmire" and "The Glades" from A&E, "Devious Maids" from Lifetime, "Mistresses" and "Rookie Blue" from ABC.

It was an enigmatic and devious response from the ultimate enigmatic and devious man.

Of course, humans have turned all manner of plant poisons to their own devious ends, from the chrysanthemum-derived pyrethrins used as insecticides to the castor bean-derived ricin, which Walter White of attempted to use to eliminate his enemies on several occasions (and which was successfully used in the 1978 assassination of a Bulgarian writer).

"Nothing you do, no precaution you take, no long or random string of characters can stop a dedicated and devious individual from cracking your account.

Imagine an even more devious Pavel, from the example above, telling an openly distrustful Trofim, in response to Trofim's question, that he is going to "Pinsk".

The air was full of the last days of something special, as groups scoffed chips and rubbed shoulders on arcade machines, we navigated our way to a devious session from Ben UFO and eventually an almost punishingly fun screamer courtesy of DJ Bone.

No one hires security experts to protect the government from devious businesses.

Such characters ran the gamut from devious charlatans to saintly wives to scheming mistresses to embattled priests to demonic spirits.

Written by Yan Geling, it follows the overall streamlined contours and devious intrigues familiar from Stephen Frears's 1988 film of the Christopher Hampton stage adaptation.

A quarter of a century later John joins his CIA agent son in Moscow in an attempt to rescue a devious Russian oligarch from the hands of the Kremlin.

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