Devious
Antonyms of DEVIOUS
- straightforward, fair, simpleminded, honest, straight, usual, average, trustworthy, aboveboard, trusty, outspoken, naive, trustful, frank, everyday, run-of-the-mine, normal, common, run-of-the-mill, truthful, forthright, ordinary, guileless, regular, unsophisticated, Undesigning, trusting, patent, candid, linear, unworldly, archetypal, public, representative, workaday, characteristic, sincere, unexceptional, plain, direct, commonplace, typical, plainspoken, unstudied, open, unremarkable, childlike, unforced, customary, wonted, obvious, unconcealed, impressionable, artless, unvarnished, routine, standard.
Examples of usage:
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To ease his mind and temper you'll git led into strange and devious paths time and agin. "Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition" by Marietta Holley
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Burr's activities after his term of public office ended in March, 1805, were devious, complicated, and purposely veiled, involving many men and spread over a large territory. "John Marshall and the Constitution A Chronicle of the Supreme Court, Volume 16 In The Chronicles Of America Series" by Edward S. Corwin
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Montgomery had returned by devious ways to the surgery. "The Green Flag" by Arthur Conan Doyle