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Definition
deceitful (not honest and straightforward) — often in a complicated, clever manner
- So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor'-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake.Chapters 43-45 -- Hark!; The Chart; The Affidavit (30% in)
- As an overladen Indiaman bearing down the Hindostan coast with a deck load of frightened horses, careens, buries, rolls, and wallows on her way; so did this old whale heave his aged bulk, and now and then partly turning over on his cumbrous rib-ends, expose the cause of his devious wake in the unnatural stump of his starboard fin.Chapters 79-81 -- The Prairie; The Nut; The Pequod Meets the Virgin (43% in)
- It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.Epilogue (93% in)
There are no more uses of "devious" in Moby Dick.
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