How To Use Deviousness In A Sentence

The infinite deviousness of "the ruling classes" and the immense difficulty of the left's task are a given in these halls.
And they've been trying to shake off their reputation for sneakiness, deviousness, and just plain disgustingness, hoping for a new image in the 21st century.
You can always get what you want by bribery and corruption, dishonesty and deviousness.
He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness.
That the process involves the FCO in dishonesty, deviousness and dishonour is emphatically encapsulated in the apparent scheme whereby Brussels will delay proposals to scrap Britain's annual £3 billion rebate. Archive 2007-12-23

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Cantor was barely able to utter this single word, so full of suspense, desire, triumph, and some deviousness.
She seemed so innocent, her previous deviousness and cunning gone in a flash.
Of course, his definition of deviousness and unfaithfulness is rather different when it comes to men, most particularly to himself. The Black Swan by Mercedes Lackey
The possibilities are limited only by the deviousness of your mind and the viciousness of your competitive drive.
On the actualist approach, Putin is devious iff his first compresence class overlaps deviousness. Tropes
Even unscrupulous pragmatists might want to let their pragmatism rein in their deviousness: even today, computer-searchable archived text seems fundamentally not to be the best medium for winning influence by, um, cageyness. Tax Freedom Redux
But if the migrants bike from a poor country to our rich one, they are demonstrating not British gumption but foreign deviousness.
When we each get up to our particular bit of crookery and deviousness we don't say, ‘I'm stealing or cheating’ we say ‘I'm beating the system.’
There is apt humor here and no less apt insight into the deviousness of the psyche.
As Nick, Louis Lovett finds the perfect balance between feigned and real innocence, and between decency and the first signs of careerist deviousness.