An ideal husband is tough to find, and the maids aren't the only ones who will be getting devious this season!
The bail-out strategy to be adopted was simple, but devious: to get the central bank to provide an initial loan that would, in effect, commit the government to further payments as needed.
Live TV was conceived as a devious plan to get football on to cable, but that didn't work - and after that, it just turned into a joke".
These Geese each had their "whites" – their Moby Dicks: the criminals who committed awful offences but were clever and devious enough to get away.
The once-manic Barnes used to function as target practice for JR; now he's CEO of Ewing Oil and JR has been forced to masquerade as mentally incapacitated in order to formulate a devious plan to get his company back.
To stop people hitting the fast-forward button, says Sir Martin Sorrell, boss of WPP, advertising will need to become more creative, powerful and informative.There are all sorts of devious ways to get through even to hardened commercial-skippers advertisers already use producommercial-skippers advertisersV shows, for instalready
Their wrath will show them new and devious ways to get around whatever barriers are put in their way in assembling their implements of destruction.
Westeros has many societal rules in place, such as naming a bastard child "Snow," convincing them they deserve a monastic life on the Wall (at least until they're reborn), or lording their illegitimacy over them, leading someone like Ramsay Bolton to get his due through more devious schemes.
If you want to break up the man or woman of your dreams and his or her significant other, then, like Othello's Iago (but far less devious), you have to get in the middle of the couple, slowly but surely.
It's sharp-shouldered, middle-class parents who try to get their kids into good schools by devious means, and middle-aged, middle-class drinkers are, apparently, the most dangerous boozers of all.
