Sentence examples for less devious from inspiring English sources

In fact he was much less devious or deft.

He comes over like David Brent's smarter, less devious brother.

The reality was perhaps less devious but no more flattering to Italy.

There may, however, be a less devious reason for the ECB to hold rates steady: many of the data are telling it not to cut.

But they are no less devious than other sales tactics currently being used, and people can always choose to ignore the messages, he says.

He hinted that, at least to some degree, he saw Dr. Lee as less devious now, but he gave no indication of when he would make his ruling.

He just has accepted and identified with his society's definition of women as weaker than men, more devious, less courageous, etc. — physically and intellectually inferior.

Plan B was more devious and inspired, less romantic, more solitary, sadder, but braver, too.

An earlier riff, about being so cute as a boy that he "intimidated" child molesters, is more devious, more playful, less glib.

In "Custer Died for Your Sins," a manifesto of the Native American-rights movement from 1969, the Sioux historian Vine Deloria, Jr., observed that, although "people often feel guilty about their ancestors killing all those Indians years ago," the twentieth century had in fact "seen a more devious but hardly less successful war waged against Indian communities".

Like the John Le Carre novel on which it is based, this quietly devious film is less about the reveal at the end - though it makes those count - than in exploring the nooks and crannies of a drab, ruthless world filled with people whose paranoia would seem ridiculous, if it weren't also justified.