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Перевод: devious speek devious


[прилагательное]
окольный; отклоняющийся от прямого пути; извилистый; кружный; блуждающий; хитрый; неискренний; нечестный


Тезаурус:

  1. Again, Manville felt a slight sense of marvel at the processes of his own brain, his devious but quite unconscious way of running ahead of his own thoughts and frequently alighting on off-beat answers.
  2. If you really want to be devious, you could spend the money on a particle accelerator.
  3. "I don't want to sound awkward, but - you said Free People were devious.
  4. He is finally rejected by the devious, arrogant Keith, who informs him that he is "obsolete" because he does not "know how to make things happen".
  5. The Slavemaster gets round this problem with some devious circuitry to produce a balancing act between pre and power amps, resulting in a more controlled, authentic effect.
  6. So unless your customer is particularly devious, and is good at it, the chances are that he can be found quite quickly and for a reasonable fee.
  7. Your editor, you know, is notoriously devious, so I always take my secretary in as witness.
  8. Some dragons banter words with you, more devious and less answerable than the Sphynx herself; they spin word games which you must not play, and then in the end they come out and fight like men, until you can plunge your spear into the soft white spot where their plated armour is thin.
  9. And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial, devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for.
  10. "You can be terribly devious, Edouard."
  11. The evidence would seem overwhelming that Lenin was not devious in defending Clause 9.
  12. In other words, was there not a feeling that, first through illness and then through his premature demise, he had been supplanted in his rights (through "natural" causation, we emphasise), much as Jacob supplanted Esau's rights so many centuries ago (through devious schemes).
  13. The period from the autumn of 1938 until the outbreak of the war in September 1939 was characterised by a series of devious stratagems as the Cambridge Board and the District sought to out-manoeuvre each other to gain supremacy in the development of adult education provision under the Board's rural areas scheme.

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