"devious of" is not a grammatically correct or commonly used phrase in English.
The correct phrase would be "devious in" or "devious about." For example, "He was devious in his approach to the problem" or "She was devious about her true intentions." In both cases, "devious" means deceitful or dishonest.
Will Rogers's homespun barbs humbled the devious of the early twentieth century.
He was faced with Halliwell, one of the most odious and devious of killers.
The memory of a trauma is often fractured in the same fashion by that most devious of camouflagers the unconscious.
It's an elegy, really, for an American family, and maybe for the idea of the American family an idea from an earlier time, when Nixon was the most devious of our commanders-in-chief.
Her egg slicer scaled for a baby is preceded by several past works involving cribs -- one of collapsing rubber, another of ultra fragile hand-blown laboratory glass and, most devious of all, one that has sharp wires stretched across it (also like an egg slicer) in place of springs.
One of their episodes, concentrating on Bill Fraser's sergeant-major (Snudge) and the most devious of the squaddies, Bootsie (Alfie Bass), drew a review from me in the News Chronicle which - Barry would kindly say - led to a spin-off series which would be their television classic.
Here, in I Must First Apologise…, they turn their penetrative attention to online spam and scamming, revealing the genealogy of devious ways of conning us out of our money through the exploitation of emotional vulnerabilities and financial fallibilities.
As if it were a proven fact that all non-Muslims have nothing better to do than thinking of devious ways of maligning our Holy Prophet's name.
Perhaps we will discover on Thursday that it was all just part of a devious campaign of subliminal misinformation, broadcast by the team.
First, in the light of ever more devious ruses of editors, the JIF indicator has now lost most of its credibility.
Those who point to the dead of Iraq and Afghanistan are surely doing so as a devious way of justifying the slaughter of a young soldier outside his barracks.
