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deviously

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9 lettersPart of speech adverbSorted deilosuvyStarts with DEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. in a devious manner

Word origin

From devious + -ly.

Used in a sentence

  • And what conversation becomes then is a sustained strip or tract of referencings, each referencing tending to bear, but often deviously, some retrospectively perceivable connection to the immediately preceding one.
  • If you are fooled by the surface you start thinking about internet browsers. But in this case it deviously refers to an animal that feeds by browsing, which is a longer standing use of the word.
  • For as much as the Downton Abbey alum has capitalized on his leading-man presentability—how suited he is to wearing suits—his best performances play deviously on that quality.

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