Sentence examples for for devious from inspiring English sources

But this time, the rapid and generous giving to relief organizations has increased the opportunities for devious personal gain.

Pay-per-click advertising is not without its problems especially "click fraud", the practice of generating bogus clicks for devious reasons, such as making a rival advertiser pay for nothing.

Though he had the courage to challenge racism, the death penalty and homophobia, he is remembered for devious political manoeuvring and appointing his mistress and cronies to the Lords.

She had shot the final season episode, "Women and Death" less than a month before testing for Devious Maids.

While the digital currency Bitcoin may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, it is very much a reality and can be the perfect way for devious divorcees to hide assets in an untraceable form.

The world really would be using Netscape were it not for the devious manipulations of Microsoft.

Reprinted in Northern papers, the report made Ellsworth a sensation for his devious use of wartime telegraphy.

Donald Segretti, an operative with President Richard Nixon's re-election committee went to jail for distributing devious, and illegal, campaign literature.

"I am an historian" was Tamar's explanation for the devious workings of his or her mind.

Anyone with a taste for sultry, devious, adrenaline-boosting suspense stories may want to cancel a few appointments before opening this one.

Even the civil service, satirised in the 1980s TV sitcom Yes Minister for exercising devious control by manipulative means, has become more compliant and deferential to ministerial demands.