Devious: divergente, desviado, apartado, afastado,
desencaminhado,vagante, errante, tortuoso, desencaminhado, errôneo, não franco,
não honesto.
Synonyms: wandering,
roundabout, out-of-the-way, remote, cunning, deceptive
“The bugs are tough, they're devious and
they're gaining new ground in homes and hotel rooms across the country, says
Susan Jones, an entomologist at Ohio...”(www.latimes.com, October 25, 2010)
Examples from www.merriam-webster.com:
“a dishonest and devious politician”
“He took us by a devious route to the
center of the city.”
