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How to use deviously in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word deviously? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
As his wife, she does one of her practiced turns as a deviously maniacal suburban matron.
Perhaps the fairy godmother could use one of her potions or deviously install her son as Fiona's new husband.
Instead of believing that, I have, being the deviously intelligent person I am, found out a way to curb this phobia of mine.
Both served up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and deviously twisted or mistaken identities.
But the two films were in fact the best directed of the competition, and the most deviously plotted.
Well, here's how I deviously kept the money from those who truly need it.
But this hopeful breakthrough turned out to be no more than a deviously effective pretext for his escape.
The latter two are deviously funny as perverts, self-aggrandising but insecure bounty hunters, game-show-host-styled hangmen, and lords and ladies of the depraved aristocracy.
Of great concern to naturists is being secretly or deviously observed by a person or persons with prurient intent.
This led him to think of ways to wriggle into the commercial passenger trade. He made his play deviously and slowly.
This means doing rather deviously or hypocritically what cannot be done directly.
Little did the police and the authorities, particularly the Foreign Office, know that all along the defendant was deviously spinning a web of lies.
Mr Lehne was absolutely right to say that there can be no question of the public prosecutors in Frankfurt being themselves in any way deviously motivated.
Kingsmead does not provide the paciest pitch in South Africa – that accolade belongs to the Wanderers in Johannesburg – but with a touch of sea fret and the wind in the right direction the ball can swing deviously.
The solutions in the next generation Astra are often deviously simple: A hard-shelled sunglass case has been inserted above the doorway on the driver side.
Examples from Classical Literature
Before us was the high range of mountains toward which we had been all day deviously drawing near.
But my diffidence in doing so is such that I must approach it deviously, describing it first by means of a figure.
Kate played in many of the pieces which, some openly, some deviously, he brought into the English stage from the French.
To reach the restaurant, for which they were deviously steering, was the first relief.
Her parentage is shrouded in mystery, and the story concerns the secret that deviously works to the surface.
Little did we imagine or anticipate that we should be so deviously betrayed from our subject.
The young gentleman offered his arm, which was accepted, and they went on down a deviously winding walk.
After dark we found our way, deviously, around several dwellings, to the house of an old Union man.
Little did Laura know that the whole scene had been deviously devised by Joe months earlier.
This is helped with a spine-tingling soundtrack which makes 4PM's game deviously dark.
Not an actual app or plan that offers true unlimited calling to India without insanely deceptive hidden fees, minute overages, and deviously hidden costs.
A brilliantly complex and deviously structured crime thriller, this excellent adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestseller is a truly classy bit of cinema.
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