Both Uses of
devious
in
The House of Mirth
- Chapter 12 Miss Bart had in fact been treading a devious way, and none of her critics could have been more alive to the fact than herself; but she had a fatalistic sense of being drawn from one wrong turning to another, without ever perceiving the right road till it was too late to take it.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- Light comes in devious ways to the groping consciousness, and it came to her now through the disgusted perception that her would-be accomplice assumed, as a matter of course, the likelihood of her distrusting him and perhaps trying to cheat him of his share of the spoils.†
Chpt 2.7
Definition:
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(devious as in: a devious plan) deceitful (not honest and straightforward) -- often in a complicated, clever manner