devious

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• In Philipps’s telling, Gallagher is a soulless master manipulator who goads his men into committing war crimes in a devious effort to prevent them from turning on him.

• Exceedingly devious how you hid the context with an ellipses in your tweet.

• Everyone who is a critic of Carlson is engaged in some devious effort to undermine him and his supporters, the truth-teller and the real Americans.

• In ways large and small, devious and immature, ingenious and inspiring, she struggled to escape.

• Rocket teamed up with the Incredible Hulk to overthrow Judson Jakes, a devious mole.

• “I love college football,” she tells me with a devious grin.

• The alleged conspirators also used more devious means to bolster credit scores.

• Bork said modern liberals have to use devious lies to get elected.

• Easterns are born with an appetite for intrigue, with a love of walking in hidden ways and creeping along devious paths.

• The conversation had come, by some devious route, to Vegetarianism; and the clergyman was disapproving of it.

• Fettes, with various liquors singing in his head, returned home with devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance.

• The remaining bullocks strayed , and the douce McLaughlan blandly absorbed the sheep.