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How to pronounce deviousness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms obliqueness
Type of indirectness
Derivation devious
Type Words
Synonyms crookedness
Type of dishonesty
Derivation devious

Examples of deviousness

deviousness
They survived a Darwinian process that rewarded drive and a touch of deviousness.
From the washingtonpost.com
You are too old to know about the deviousness of hackers of the modern era.
From the independent.co.uk
He lacks J.R.'s grace and wit, the delicious deviousness of the character.
From the sfgate.com
The 2010 map, drawn with brazenly partisan intentions, was masterful in its deviousness.
From the freep.com
Tho'with such deviousness, he might be useful in negotiating with China.
From the guardian.co.uk
Ben Stein and the producers are guilty of distortion, deception, dishonesty, and deviousness.
From the dailyherald.com
The deviousness lurking in Big Guy's little mind made it a necessity.
From the kansas.com
It runs straight into Washington's earmark culture of waste, corruption and anticonstitutional deviousness.
From the dailyherald.com
Persians have many centuries practice in deviousness, and compared to them Machiavelli was a parvenu.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
  • The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness