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Definition of Deviousness
1. Noun. The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly.
2. Noun. The quality of being deceitful and underhanded.
Definition of Deviousness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deviousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deviousness
Literary usage of Deviousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg (2003)
"[2] Now, since compulsions combine with their deviousness to make up the inner
thought processes of evil people, and since the pleasures of those ..."
2. What Handwriting Indicates: An Analytical Graphology by John Rexford (1904)
"In general, however, straight lines (35 A) indicate straightforwardness and
irregular ones deviousness (37); and by deviousness is not necessarily meant ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"There are also many lakes in the ice hereabouts, as in so many other glaciers,
and these add to the deviousness of the way. It follows that the progress of ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see DIRECT. indirection, n. deviousness, deviation; spec, circuity,
circuitousness, obliquity, obliqueness, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1875)
"In all the deviousness of outline in nature, there is at once the characteristic
and the capricious. In Goethe's " Tasso," for instance, you can forecast ..."
6. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"the eye became familiar with the darkness it was seen that they were really
advancing inland, yet with a slowness of progression and deviousness of course ..."
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