Sentence examples for with devious from inspiring English sources

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The match between the two at Twickenham stood out: it may have produced only two tries but the two sides bristled with devious intent.

It admitted in court that it sent dozens of bankers on thousands of trips with devious stratagems to hide money from tax authorities.

NEATLY combining apparent omniscience with devious devices, Paul Shepheard in "Artificial Love" evokes the tantalizingly ambitious great work his book doesn't deliver by telling stories about its almost believable genesis.

Young people in any country will indulge in inebriating activities excessively and recklessly by whatever means is available to them: negotiating laws with devious enthusiasm, aging fake IDs in the toaster or mastering the art of cut-and-paste forgery.

Accused of mistreating their women and proliferating with devious rapidity, and goaded to abandon their religious and cultural baggage, many Jews in the 19th century paid an even higher cost of "integration" than that confronting Muslims today in France.

The contrast with London could not be more obvious, and it is one of several that François Ozon, who wrote (with Emanuèle Bernheim) and directed this clever, teasing entertainment, lays out with devious nonchalance.

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They ask the player to fully engage with their devious designs, with difficulty spikes that necessitate your full concentration.

They ask the player to fully engage with their devious designs, with difficulty spikes that necessitate full concentration to overcome.

The second worst people on Facebook spend all of May 4 posting "may the fourth be with you," and the worst people do the same but with a devious picture of Star Trek's Spock under the text.

Mr. Berkoff, who has played a villain or two himself ("Beverly Hills Cop"), says, "The villain lets loose the dark inferno of the imagination by sharing his secrets with us and begs us to understand him by wooing us with his devious charms".

With her devious schemes, her loyal heart, the two kingdoms she has been playing with, and the boy she can never have.

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