3 uses
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Definition
deceitful (not honest and straightforward) — often in a complicated, clever manner
- Without devious reasoning or complicated emotional processes, the boy became Katie's whole world.Chapter 10 (74% in)
- She feared them for their devious ways, she mistrusted their instincts.Chapter 30 (93% in)
- She had walked straight through McGarrity's front door disdaining the deviousness of the side door marked "Ladies' Entrance.Chapter 38 (45% in)
There are no more uses of "devious" in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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