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"deviousness" Definitions
  1. behaviour that is dishonest or indirect, or that tricks people, in order to get something

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In high school, I daydreamed about Chuck Bass' dashing deviousness.
"I'm enjoying the deviousness of my mind," he said Saturday.
Icahn is known for his stamina and deviousness as a negotiator.
He reveals his true deviousness in human form at the palace ball.
Only after stumbling upon cold, undeniable evidence of Greta's deviousness does Frances finally believe Erica.
The mores, though, are key: they set the sport's boundaries between cheating and legitimate deviousness.
And yet, they have this kind of irrepressible, horny deviousness that I don't necessarily care for.
We go from Lance's pettiness to LeBron's bemusement to Lance's deviousness to LeBron's frustration to Lance's smugness to LeBron's genuine amusement.
History will treat Nixon's moral failures as relatively less troubling than Trump's sustained and growing decadence, deviousness and self-delusive behavior.
On the surprising connection between Liv and the "Bent Neck Lady:" Of all the Crains, Nell and Olivia are especially susceptible to to Hill House's deviousness.
But making readers wait breathlessly for the next book in the series to find out what happened does show a certain (strategic) deviousness on Johnson's part.
In the opening moments, Elizabeth Sloane, a formidable Washington lobbyist, legendary for her deviousness and determination to win at all costs, impassively describes her professional modus operandi.
Ms. Nixon plays Regina's deviousness from the start, which is a treat, but Ms. Linney keeps it concealed for a while, which makes for a stinging surprise.
A little money and deviousness goes a long way for foreign actors in propagandizing veterans, who are among the most trusted and civically engaged constituencies in American politics.
Paulo Rabello de Castro said on Monday the meatpacker's decision to replace jailed CEO Wesley Batista with his father José Batista Sobrinho was a sign of "deviousness" and should be investigated.
For all the frivolous press coverage suggesting she didn't show enough emotion, and all the right-wing fulminating over her supposed deviousness, it seems her talent for dissembling has been greatly exaggerated.
Part of 22.0chan's tendency toward deviousness stems from the fact that, unlike with Reddit, there's no need to make a username, and no way to message others in 24chan — hence creating an atmosphere of anything-goes anonymity.
Luce dreads his questioning her, as he frequently does when she reminds him of something he has forgotten, suspiciously, irritably, as if she'd kept information from him out of deviousness: Why on earth didn't you tell me ?
The book reads like a detective novel in which the operative McGuffin would be the Russian affinity for deviousness and pliés, but I tend to think that the history of any institution probably sports a similar darkling underbelly.
Stu Ockman isn't wildly prolific (not that there's anything wrong with that), but his history indicates a leaning toward grids for the end of the week, and a deviousness in cluing and expansive vocabulary to go with it.
But the House of Cards universe is still teeming with deviousness— and new characters, like Bill (Greg Kinnear) and Annette (Diane Lane) Shepherd, the siblings who are very close to the action in the Oval Office, despite not being elected officials.
It's time for the Trump administration to do what candidate Trump did so well during the campaign: Speak the truth about the deviousness of Qatar's rulers and their support for radical jihadi groups who seek to export terror to Europe and America.
" Greenberg describes how Nixon's "relentless P.R. efforts served to strengthen his reputation for deviousness and insincerity" and says that "to counter that image, he spun even more furiously, striking a pose of authenticity and protesting that he paid image-making no mind at all.
Forced over and over again to fight enormous, dangerous men for whom being enormous and dangerous wasn't enough, who felt instead that illicit hormonal performance enhancement was in order—faced with all that compromise and deviousness—Hunt has demanded justice and a simple sense of fair play.
GUTFELD: I knew what you were up to, you were going to have me on to talk about Trump so you could beat me in the ratings on Saturday, tonight, and I though, I&aposm going to counteract your deviousness which is by the way, brilliant to do a Trump segment with me, to beat me on Saturday night.
I don't want to call hers a definitive performance, because that would imply that her Mary is a kind of fly in amber—which is the last thing you think as you watch her jump from flirtatiousness to maternal concern, from junkie selfishness to contempt for male self-regard, from deviousness to the sting of loss.
I have often looked at photographs of writers in their elegant book-lined studies and marveled at what seems to me a mirage of sorts, the near-perfect alignment of seeming with being, the convincing illusion of mental processes on public display, as though writing a book were not the work of someone capable of all the shame and deviousness and coldheartedness in the world.
It's for the latter show, which just ended its third season earlier this summer, that Odenkirk's been nominated for an Emmy for the third consecutive time in as many years in the Outstanding Lead Actor—Drama category, and with good reason: His performance—a pitch-perfect mixture of deviousness, down-on-your-luck sympathy, and hopeless hopefulness—shines as the crown jewel of one of TV's most fascinating shows right now.
The flaws that the song mentions include lying, temptation, trust, deviousness, and treason.
His deviousness, clowning and attention-seeking have something fittingly and convincingly cattish about them.
Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction rated The Duplicated Man three and a half stars out of five: "Deviousness of plotting and many thumbnail character sketches enliven the book".
He seems to look like a family together with Hase and Kuri. This sometimes gives off some homoromantic vibes. ; : :Yushi's childhood best friend and classmate. Hase comes from a rich family and is quite smart and cunning, his deviousness is often used for comic relief.
He disposed of the main Union opponent, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, by ignoring him. Nor does he account for the deviousness of the Duke of Hamilton, the official leader of the various factions opposed to the Union, who seemingly betrayed his former colleagues when he switched to the Unionist/Government side in the decisive final stages of the debate.
Antoine Maurin, 1835 Presenting a marked contrast to Brougham, whom Hazlitt believed to have shown some of the deviousness of (in Hazlitt's formulation) the typical Scot,Hazlitt 1930, vol. 11, p. 138. Hazlitt subjoins a brief sketch of Sir Francis Burdett. Burdett (1770–1844), scion of the Burdett family of Bramcote, was a member of parliament from 1797 until his death.
Ferdinand's diplomatic deviousness and off-and-on alliances with France infuriated Henry VIII of England (born 1491, reigned 1509–1547), married to Ferdinand and Isabella's youngest daughter, Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536). Seeing this match devalued, Henry in 1514 forced his sister Mary (1496–1533) into a loveless marriage with Louis XII to spite Ferdinand. Louis XII died the next year.
On the show, Judy is rarely seen outside the classroom. She tries to curry favor with her teachers, but they are aware of her deviousness and keep her in check. Judy's parents are seen briefly in an episode about Beaver's being chosen to perform in a school play as a canary. Her last appearance is in the episode, "Beaver Becomes a Hero" (October 1960).
Inspektor Gadget: Die komplette Staffel 1 (English translation: Inspector Gadget: The Complete Season 1) was released in Germany by More Music and Media on March 19, 2010. The 10-disc set includes all 65 episodes from the first Season, but with only German audio. In Hungary, Dr. Claw is called "Doktor Fondor", which is actually the first two syllables of "fondorlat", meaning intrigue, deviousness, or fraud.
He initially sided with Shannon Elkins, Alina Wilson, Kelly Bruno, and Ben "Benry" Henry. Elkins wanted Brenda Lowe eliminated because of her perceived deviousness, but due to Elkins's aggressiveness at their first Tribal Council, two of their allies (Henry and Bruno) eventually voted against Elkins. Afterwards, Birza's remaining alliance partners were in line for elimination, though he remained indispensable because of his strength in challenges. Strategically, he was perceived as somewhat clueless.
Colonel Sir Henry Simmerson is a recurring villain, portrayed as a stereotypical snobbish, petty and tyrannical minor English aristocrat. He is narrow-minded, militarily inept and cowardly; while he is not presented as a clever man, he does display a certain cunning and deviousness. In his first appearance in the novels, he is described as short, squat, and red-faced giving the impression of "a pig sitting on horseback".Cornwell, B. 1981: Sharpe's Eagle.
The song has received generally positive reviews. Craig Mathieson from The Age stated that the sisters "have the pop single of the year in '4ever', a juiced-up slice of stimuli that is constructed so cannily you can't help but love its deviousness."The Age review for 4ever. The Secret Life of The Veronicas The Age. Retrieved 1 November 2009. Shannon Sanders from Iowa State Daily said the song was "ever-so-clever"Iowa State Daily review for 4ever.
This anecdote has been previously mis-reported in the Independent as the British Consul - a common mistake. While acknowledging that playing Urquhart brought him immediate public recognition, Richardson stated that as a Scottish Presbyterian, he found the character's "Machiavellian deviousness" and sex appeal "really rather revolting". Nevertheless, despite finding him "an irritating bugger", Richardson found Urquhart "a joy to play". The character also took inspiration from contemporary Conservative politicians, including the fearsome Conservative Party whip Tristan Garel-Jones.
The House of the Yendi is one of the noble Houses of the Dragaeran empire. Members of the House are renowned for deviousness, subtlety, and their complicated schemes that are nearly impossible for anyone but another Yendi to figure out. Unlike members of most Houses, Yendi do not share any physical traits beyond a noble's point that shows their noble status. This fact combined with their lack of House colors makes it difficult to identify a Yendi by sight.
Ian Gilmour argues that Butler was always more popular in the country than in his own party, and that he acquired an unjust reputation for deviousness but was in fact less so than a number of his colleagues.Matthew 2004, pp. 203, 207. The Guardian and the Daily Mirror praised him (on his return to Cambridge in June 1965) but wrote that he had lacked the ruthless streak needed to get to the very top in politics.
He also reveals himself to be the father of Michael, whose soul Killjoy exploited before destroying. The professor chose not to name a victim while initially summoning Killjoy because the target of his revenge was ultimately Killjoy himself. The clown applauds the professor for his deviousness in using both himself and the students alike to achieve his revenge. Killjoy proclaims that the souls he consumes become a part of him, and the spirit of Michael appears, consoling his father.
Artemis Fowl. Artemis Fowl. Hyperion Books. p. 30. .Eoin Colfer (2004). The Artemis Fowl Files. Artemis Fowl. Hyperion Books. p. 99. . One of his most prized possessions given to him by Holly Short at the end of The Arctic Incident was a fairy coin that she shot a hole through using the trigger finger he and Julius Root helped her to heal, to remind him "that deep beneath the layers of deviousness...[he has]...a spark of decency".Eoin Colfer (2002).
As such, alliances used to be carried out with much more secrecy, craft, and deviousness. In fact, many of the earliest alliances on the show were formed to sabotage members of one's own team who were perceived as weak. Once exposed, alliances typically came as offensive and shocking to those not involved. Since the later seasons, however, alliances have become a norm among the show's contestants, so much so that most contestants are expected to join an alliance upon beginning out a season.
By leasing Liaodong and railway concessions, Russia crashed its Sphere of Influence squarely into Japan's. This acted as a further goad to emerging Japanese anger at their disrespectful treatment by all the West. In the immediate fallout of the Triple Intervention, Japanese popular resentment at Russia's deviousness and the perceived weakness of its own government caving in to foreign pressure led to riots in Tokyo. The disturbance almost brought down the government, as well as a strengthening of imperial and expansionist factions within Japan.
While Gary was visiting, Lucy, his teenage daughter, surprised him by reintroducing him to Valene. For the sake of his ex-wife and daughter, Gary tried to make things work in Texas, but soon came under the old pressures of living up to Jock's expectations and J.R.'s deviousness. J.R. had set Gary up in an office equipment machinery firm in a hope that Gary would fail as usual. To ensure his new found sobriety, he knew he had to leave Southfork and his family once again.
As historian Perry Miller wrote, "Griswold was about as devious as they came in this era of deviousness; did not ample documentation prove that he actually existed, we might suppose him ... one of the less plausible inventions of Charles Dickens".Miller, 168 Later anthologies such as Prose Writers of America and Female Poets of America helped him become known as a literary dictator, whose approval writers sought even while they feared his growing power.Quinn, 351 Even as they tried to impress him, however, several authors voiced their opinion on Griswold's character.
He adopted his surname, "Kenyatta", after the name of a beaded belt he often wore in early life. As President he collected a variety of expensive cars. Murray-Brown noted that Kenyatta had the ability to "appear all things to all men", also displaying a "consummate ability to keep his true purposes and abilities to himself", for instance concealing his connections with communists and the Soviet Union both from members of the British Labour Party and from Kikuyu figures at home. This deviousness was sometimes interpreted as dishonesty by those who met him.
In 1964, Labour regained the premiership, as Harold Wilson narrowly won the general election with a majority of five. This was not sufficient to last for a full term and, after a short period of competent government, in March 1966, he won re-election with a landslide majority of 99. As Prime Minister, his opponents accused him of deviousness, especially over the matter of devaluation of the pound in November 1967. Wilson had rejected devaluation for many years, yet in his broadcast had seemed to present it as a triumph.
Suspecting some type of deviousness on the part of Scuderia Ferrari, he returned to the Maranello to confront Enzo Ferrari. It was explained that Luigi Bazzi, Ferrari's technician had purposely strangled the engine in order protect the young driver. Somewhat embarrassed by this, Enzo promised to personally see that car would be prepared for the race. Marzotto decided for the following season he would improve on the 195 S, with an all-new design of his own based on Ferrari 166 with an engine from a Ferrari 212.
Martin or Mading, knows everything there is to know about Chen Anxin, and his job scope includes settling any trouble after his boss's many flings. When he realises that Anxin has fallen in love with Zhao Shuiling, he hides the truth of Shuiling being Chen Yingjun's girlfriend from him and even hooks Anxin up with Shuiling. Martin is especially impressed with Shuiling's intelligence and deviousness, and goes all out to please her. With Shuiling's constant fear that Meixue may wake up one day to expose her evil deeds, and under repeated instigation by Martin, Shuiling and Martin end Meixue's life.
David claims it is difficult for someone to make a self-evaluation, and Michael leaves the meeting in a very pleasant mood. In the parking lot, Andy has not shown up for the duel, instead leaving a deliberately verbose note hanging in the bushes saying he has given up. As Dwight reads it, Andy sneaks up behind him in his Toyota Prius, a hybrid car that remains completely silent when driven below five miles per hour due to the electric motor. Impressed by Andy's deviousness, the rest of the office does not warn Dwight, saying that Andy "deserves the win".
This was partly due to the fact that the excise duties were seen as a tax by a foreign power, i.e. England, and so denying this revenue was their patriotic duty.Jean Simmons, (1975), Scottish Smugglers, HS Litho Ltd, Somerset, P12 There are many tales of the deviousness of the whisky smuggler in outwitting the gaugers (an itinerant exciseman who measured containers and their content),Jean Simmons, (1975), Scottish Smugglers, HS Litho Ltd, Somerset, P15 and the excisemen. In one such story the gaugers confiscated a large cask of spirit and transported it to a nearby inn where they were staying.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy gained a reputation for deviousness. Computer Gaming World reported on rumors that "several important people within the [video game] industry cannot (snicker, snicker!!!) even get out of [the] first room!" Perhaps the most notorious instance involved getting a Babel Fish out of a dispenser in the hold of the Vogon ship, which would translate the Vogon language to English. This tricky puzzle appeared early in the game and required the player to use a variety of obscure items in a specific fashion to create a Rube Goldberg-like chain of events, and the puzzle had to be "solved" within a limited number of turns.
Early in his career in early 1980, when he started earning an annual salary of HK$10 million, he was given the nickname "Working- class emperor" () . Later, during his campaign for CE elections, across the territory he is nicknamed "The Wolf" by some opponents – alluding to his cunning and deviousness, and as a pun of his name and the Chinese word for wolf. Others refer to him as Dracula, given his prominent eye teeth. Leung has also been associated with and caricatured as Lufsig – an IKEA plush toy – after one was thrown at him by an anti-government protester in December 2013 during a town hall meeting.
Andrews has said, when asked about possible work as an illustrator;Stainless Steel Droppings Interview Andrews participated in the 2002 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London.Jonathan Jones, BP portrait award, The Guardian, July 15, 2002. On the subject of the diversity of his work, Andrews states that he is constantly looking for new subject matter as he does not want to become known for one subject. Andrews also stated when asked about 'good vs evil' in his work that he thinks more along the lines of dominant versus subordinate; that he is attempting to catch a moment of mystery or deviousness in his work.
Peri is given charge of them but the Rani's deviousness outstrips the Master's and she is the one who enables them to escape. The Rani and the Master flee in her TARDIS, but the Doctor has sabotaged the navigational system and velocity regulator, and the ship starts heading out of control. In the destabilised condition, one of the jars containing an embryo Tyrannosaurus Rex falls to the floor and the creature begins to grow, affected by the time spillage. The Master and the Rani are "stuck" against one of the walls of the Rani's TARDIS, due to the speed at which they are travelling; and are helplessly at the mercy of the rapidly aging immature Tyrannosaurus.
Chrissie became well known for her deviousness and "scheming", echoing the traits of her husband, who is "happy to play mind games" and "often two steps ahead" of Den. As part of the Watts family, her storylines centre on her tumultuous marriage to Den, her relationship with his children, and the ongoing feud with the rival Mitchell family. She was involved in numerous clashes with other female character and was constantly scheming against those who got in her way, earning her the sobriquet of "super-bitch". In 2005, Chrissie was the focus of one of "the programme's biggest and most high-profile narratives" when she murdered her husband in a fit of rage during the special 20th anniversary episode.
His own treatise on this topic, one of the "heretical, treasonable and damnable books" found amongst Francis Tresham's possessions, was laid on the council table before him. Although it condemned lying, Garnet's treatise supported the notion that when questioned, for instance, on the presence of a priest in his house, a Catholic might "securely in conscience" answer "No" if he had a "secret meaning reserved in his mind". The occasions on which a Catholic might legitimately use equivocation, he supposed, were limited, but such replies could be taken as an example of insincerity or deviousness—especially to the king's council, who may not have wanted to see Garnet prove his case. The council's view of equivocation was very different from Garnet's.
" Hardcore Gaming 101 called him "one of the lamest final bosses in the series" and said, "He can steal the moves from other characters and summon skeleton hands, but that's more or less it, which is pretty lame for a guy who overthrew Lucifer." Mikel Reparaz of GamesRadar described the character as "a pale old man in a stupid hat." Complex chose Shinnok as the second-most underrated MK character behind Kenshi in 2011, calling him an "uber-evil version of Merlin," and ranked him sixth in their 2013 selection of the twenty "most brutal" series characters, for his "cunning and deviousness" and being "arguably as heartless as Shao Kahn." Dom Nero of Esquire, in 2019, described Shinnok in MKX as a "malignant [and] terrible shithead.
On 19 July 2002, Banksy's first Los Angeles exhibition debuted at 33 Gallery, a tiny Silver Lake venue owned by Frank Sosa and was on view until 18 August. The exhibition, entitled Existencilism, "an Exhibition of Art, Lies and Deviousness" was curated by 33 Gallery, Malathion LA's Chris Vargas, Funk Lazy Promotions' Grace Jehan, and B+. The flyer of the exhibition indicates an opening reception was followed by a performance by Money Mark with DJ's Jun, AL Jackson, Rhettmatic, J.Rocc, Coleman. Some of the paintings exhibited included Smiley Copper H (2002), Leopard and Barcode (2002), Bomb Hugger (2002), and Love is in the Air (2002). In 2003, at an exhibition called Turf War, held in a London warehouse, Banksy painted on animals.
Other UFO researchers point out that high-energy ionizing radiation of the kind that can cause damage to human beings, such as gamma radiation, does not induce radioactivity in objects and would not have left behind any residual radioactivity in the area. Similarly, skeptical British ufologist Peter Brookesmith writes, "Sceptics have always asked a blunt and fundamental question: What was the trio's state of health before their alleged encounter?"Dash, 2000 Brookesmith also wrote: "To ufologists, the case is perhaps the most baffling and frustrating of modern times, for what started with solid evidence for a notoriously elusive phenomenon petered out in a maze of dead ends, denials, and perhaps even official deviousness."Dash, Mike, Borderlands: The Ultimate Exploration of the Unknown; Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2000; In December 2018, Brian Dunning investigated the case and reported his findings on the Skeptoid podcast.
By the 1930s Taussig had also changed his attitude toward women. Rather than advising doctors to expect deviousness from women as he had done in the 1910 volume, he drew contrasts between the skill of midwives and the clumsiness of doctors whose sharp instruments often caused perforations of the uterus. He wrote that the increase in injury and death because of perforations over the previous fifty years was largely the result of "the proportionate increase in abortions handled by doctors as against those handled by midwives." Some passages in the 1936 book explicitly support greater rights for women: Both Taussig's wife Florence Gottschalk and his daughter Mary Taussig Hall were active in women's rights and other progressive movements, in the latter case starting in 1916 at age 5, when she walked with her mother at the head of a demonstration by 7,000 women demanding the right to vote.
Entertainment Weeklys Sandra Gonzalez gave the episode a positive review, and wrote that it "was one of (her) favorite just-for-fun surprises they’ve delivered in years". Donna Bowman of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+ stating that while this is one of the show's better entries, what stopped it from being truly great was that the evening felt like a ruse right from the beginning. Angel Cohn of Television Without Pity gave the episode a B−, praising the episode for giving Robin the chance to show her deviousness, the performance by Ralph Macchio and having the entire cast involved in the main plot. Max Nicholson of IGN scored the episode 7.8, stating that while he enjoyed the majority of the episode (in particular, the final twist regarding the clown's identity), it suffered from the Robin/Loretta dinner scenes (stating that they felt hammy and were unnecessary, especially considering they never really happened) and the flirting between Lily and Ralph.
Battlefield Earth received polarized mixed reviews, with some critics, and readers, considering the book Hubbard's most enjoyable sci-fi work and a classic of the genre, while others consider it to be genuinely terrible. The book had a negative reception from some literary critics: The Economist, for instance, called Battlefield Earth "an unsubtle saga, atrociously written, windy and out of control" while in the science fiction magazine Analog, Thomas Easton criticized it as "a wish- fulfillment fantasy wholly populated by the most one-dimensional of cardboard characters." Other critics pointed to the book's slipshod writing, such as "the ineffably klutzy destruction of the planet of the evil Psychlos by atomic bombs, which turns it into a 'radioactive sun'". Punch sarcastically commended Hubbard's "excellent understanding of evil impulses, particularly deviousness, which helps with the plot, and [he] is well-enough aware of his weaknesses not to dwell upon frailties like love, generosity, compassion".
In 1996, the prominent American scholar, Charles Kahn, advocated an 'ingressive interpretation' that reads beneath the surface and finds Neo-Platonic themes within Plato's dialogues: > Why so much deviousness on Plato's part? Why do dialogues ... obscurely hint > at doctrines ...? In the case of Plato, his lifetime loyalty to the dialogue > form suggests a temperamental aversion to direct statement, reinforced by > much reflection on the obstacles to successful communication for > philosophical insight... [Plato's indirect and subtle,] ingressive mode of > exposition has, I suggest, been chosen by Plato because of his acute sense > of the psychological distance that separates his world view from that of his > audience... Plato's metaphysical vision ... is recognizably that of Plotinus > and the Neoplatonists ... C. H. Kahn, Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The > Philosophical Use of a Literary Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, > 1996), pp. 65-67. Although Kahn does not see any extensive use of allegory or symbolism in Plato's dialogues, his approach calls for a kind of subtle interpretation that reaches conclusions he compares to those discovered by Neo-Platonist allegoresis.

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