How To Use Deviousness In A Sentence
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The infinite deviousness of "the ruling classes" and the immense difficulty of the left's task are a given in these halls.
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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.
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You can always get what you want by bribery and corruption, dishonesty and deviousness.
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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.
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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.
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She seemed so innocent, her previous deviousness and cunning gone in a flash.
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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
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The possibilities are limited only by the deviousness of your mind and the viciousness of your competitive drive.
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On the actualist approach, Putin is devious iff his first compresence class overlaps deviousness.
Tropes
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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
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But if the migrants bike from a poor country to our rich one, they are demonstrating not British gumption but foreign deviousness.
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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.’
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There is apt humor here and no less apt insight into the deviousness of the psyche.
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As Nick, Louis Lovett finds the perfect balance between feigned and real innocence, and between decency and the first signs of careerist deviousness.