Surely all kinds of devious and slimy goondas (criminals) must be trying to find a way to shove them out and put up trendy apartments overlooking the sea? "All the time, every week a property developer comes saying this or that, not even our homes but saying they will buy land and build something,"says Manish.
Yet as I've written before for the Irish Times and elsewhere, these assertions are fundamentally false and belie an extremely devious attitude to research.
(Neither Lowe nor Reynolds was a match. The true devious defecator remains at large).
He offers the threat produced by the apparently unthreatening; small, plump, frail, he nonetheless conjures up a strangely devious menace.
The permanent court of arbitration rejected Moscow's arguments that the assets seizure was driven by tax-collection motives, ruling that the state set out to bankrupt the oil firm in "a devious and calculated expropriation".
The 12 Years a Slave star is perhaps Lee's most high-profile find, but others who have found success from the Showcases include Randall Park who stars in the upcoming series Fresh off the Boat, as well as Grey's Anatomy star Jesse Williams, Chadwick Boseman (42) and Dania Ramirez (Devious Maids).
The California-based firm was last week branded devious, calculating and unethical over efforts to shelter its multibillion-pound profits from UK taxes, during a hearing before the Commons committee.
A prime example is Stan Valchek, the commander of the south-eastern district, who ends season five one of the few Wire winners despite being repeatedly exposed as vindictive, devious and incompetent.
Robben, such a brilliant yet devious opponent, had started diving to try to win a penalty before Franck Ribéry set up Schweinsteiger to open the scoring.
That is what Federal District Judge Amy Totenberg was asked to decide in the case of the "devious defecator".
On May 16th it was branded "devious" and "unethical", and accused of misleading earlier hearings.
