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(Adjective) Tricky, deceptive, underhanded, sneaky.

Usage: Nixon: "Eisenhower was devious in the best sense of that word." (Actually, there is another meaning - "roundabout," "like an crab in motion" - but it's so obscure that Tricky Dick probably never heard of it, and was just trying to stick the shiv in.

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(Adjective) The antonym of just

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(Adjective) Indirect, deliberately-hidden.

Usage: Technically, "devious" and "indirect" can be synonyms, but in essentially all cases (at least in everyday usage), calling someone "devious" when you mean "indirect" is a blatant insult.

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