| She seemed so innocent, her previous deviousness and cunning gone in a flash. |
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| You can always get what you want by bribery and corruption, dishonesty and deviousness. |
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| In his later career as an American Indian agent he earned a reputation for deviousness and dishonesty. |
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| But if the migrants bike from a poor country to our rich one, they are demonstrating not British gumption but foreign deviousness. |
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| There is apt humor here and no less apt insight into the deviousness of the psyche. |
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| Few Prime Ministers have ever been more sincere in their piety, and few have been capable of greater deviousness or even unscrupulousness. |
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| The possibilities are limited only by the deviousness of your mind and the viciousness of your competitive drive. |
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| His deviousness, clowning and attention-seeking have something fittingly and convincingly cattish about them. |
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| But perhaps no better could be expected from an industry that has proved singularly dim in its deviousness. |
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| This was a shameful failure for them, for the people watched this debate smiling at the deviousness of their leaders. |
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| He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness. |
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| When bad cops and crooks get together, the deviousness is doubled. |
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| As Nick, Louis Lovett finds the perfect balance between feigned and real innocence, and between decency and the first signs of careerist deviousness. |
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| And they've been trying to shake off their reputation for sneakiness, deviousness, and just plain disgustingness, hoping for a new image in the 21st century. |
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| Both are put to the test here even more formidably than in the previous books, as a plot of nerve-tingling suspense and brain-teasing deviousness ramifies. |
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| The trial judge held that even following Proulx a conditional sentence was not appropriate for the first offender who had a good background in view of the planning, deviousness, and substantial money involved. |
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| Asset recovery is a slog, studded with obstacles that range from the deviousness of those hiding the money to the clunkiness of the international legal framework for identifying, freezing and repatriating looted wealth. |
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| How does he exude such elegant deviousness? |
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| In later political life he kept a cherished black Spitfire, which flew among the modern jet fighters at his state funeral. His daring and deviousness both showed themselves early. |
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| The West, she argues, generally underestimates the deviousness and destructiveness of Islamist movements, whether they use bullets, ballot boxes or both. |
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| Cheating and deviousness apart, is this what we want? |
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| However, it does not follow that those who laid the accusation before the public prosecutors, thereby triggering that public duty, were themselves wholly lacking in any deviousness of motive. |
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| The European Union cannot suffer in silence in the face of generalised and unjustified embargoes such as Canada's or the deviousness of the United States' behaviour towards us. |
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