Sentence examples for somewhat devious from inspiring English sources
The technique of scaling from model to ship therefore must follow a somewhat devious path whose principal steps are as follows: (1) Total resistance of the model is measured.
The use of somewhat devious, emotional rather than straightforward means of persuasion is of course, for better or worse, a characteristic of much successful commercial advertising".
"Startups often have to do slightly devious things," Graham says.
But I'm all for good, clean, slightly devious competition.
"Startups often have to do slightly devious things," explained Graham.
I do like playing slightly more devious characters.
It has everything a good crime tale needs: a devious, decadent upper-class cast spinning around 1970s London in fancy cars, feeling somewhat above the law.
Fuzzed up and hunched over, Mr. Kutcher looks somewhat like the young Jobs, and there are moments — as when he gives another character a small, devious look as if sliding in a knife — that the casting seems more than a matter of bottom-line calculation.
The fact that (as we discovered after their deaths) they were devious, manipulative, hypocritical and – in Sartre's case at least – ludicrously credulous about authoritarian regimes has tarnished their lustre somewhat.
