Sentence examples for devious trick from inspiring English sources

You must ask yourself: what is the worst, most devious trick he could be up to here?

A well designed freemium game uses money as a way to increase player agency and allow an extra form of expression rather than as a gating mechanic or devious trick.

Though unrelated, female cowbirds use the same devious trick as the common cuckoo, hoping their victims will not notice their invasive act, and will adopt, incubate and raise the cowbird chick on their behalf.

Verdi's Falstaff is a figure of fun, an irascible, bloated ruffian full of devious tricks to woo married ladies.

Conservatives add that, on the contrary, some judges use devious tricks to nudge the law leftward, such as citing foreign precedents, which can be cherry-picked from Europe.

One of the most devious tricks of the Putin system is that the consequences, just like the transgressions they are meant to enforce, are left purposefully vague.

Lest Howard's wild schemes and devious tricks win a few readers over, the author makes him a pedophile as well.

Now, researchers have mapped out the devious tricks one cancer-causing monkey virus employs to get inside.

To figure out TB's devious tricks, a team led by Stanford University microbiologist Stanley Falkow investigated a close relative of TB, one that infects frogs rather than mammals.

Researchers have seen evidence for this in the lab, where male fruit flies have evolved devious tricks, such as compounds in their semen that made females less sexually attractive to other males (ScienceNOW, 22 June 1998).

Finns charged that the Swedish officials had used devious tricks in their campaign against Nurmi's amateur status, and ceased all athletic relations with Sweden.