Meanwhile, Miner, 48, is trying hard to paint Fincher as a devious, vindictive person who wasn't playing with a full deck.
In the print series, "Dirty John" is stylishly designed, with large photographs of its subjects and expensive real estate; it features pull quotes such as "The most devious, dangerous, deceptive person I ever met," styled like tabloid headlines, in maroon capital letters.
"As seems the case with Brady, the mental illness is compounded by severe personality disorder, which can make a person highly devious and convincing".
If that person is a devious, conniving, arrogant jerk, you'll find that he produces a lot of bosses under him that are the same".
Finally, a truly devious enemy can prepare a young person to sniff out and avoid false or unreliable allies in adult life, when betrayals can be much more dangerous.
All this is a hefty dose of background info to swallow, and I haven't even mentioned such key concepts as the "kick", the "totem" and something called "Mr Charles" – not a person, but an unfathomably devious tactic which I couldn't begin to explain.
"They had to make him look devious and underhanded and slimy... someone who is not who he is: a brutally honest person," Simers' attorney, Carney Shegerian, told the jury.
Blatter, 74, may be facing the reality that a championship-level soccer match involving fast and powerful and, dare we say it, devious players is too complicated to be refereed by one person and two assistants on the sidelines.
"For the sake of the person who dropped it, I hope this is a devious marketing scheme," said Paul Saffo, a veteran Silicon Valley forecaster.
Then there is the disabled person as a drain on resources – as a useless or even devious benefit-scrounger.
