Sentence examples for devious methods from inspiring English sources

"Social engineers" use devious methods to obtain valuable confidential information from their victims.

We had to wait for the last soloist to see his strange and devious methods in effect.

Closed circles of the rich and powerful sometimes need to be penetrated by devious methods to uncover abuse.

But there was an obverse side to these virtues: his love of devious methods; his carelessness over appointments and honours; and a streak of ruthlessness that left little room for the cultivation of personal friendship.

The Pazzi bank, in the course of a treacherous war in which the adversaries did not scruple to use the most devious methods, had taken the business affairs of the papacy away from the Medici.

Her devious methods and inventive disguises have allowed this lone-wolf predator to go undetected by international law enforcement, until her uncharacteristically violent Channel crossing from Calais to Folkestone alerts agents in the Special Branch and the Secret Service to a possible terrorist attack on the heads of state at a nine-nation summit in London.

But there is devious method in the show's comic glibness.

Then he must come up with a new devious method of gift-wrapping for next Christmas.

I will employ more devious, civilized methods.

Though accused of devious and unscrupulous methods, he is remembered for his achievements.

In The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation (1961), James Harvey Young describes some of the devious and notorious methods used to promote patent medicines.