| But my diffidence in doing so is such that I must approach it deviously, describing it first by means of a figure. |
| Both served up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and deviously twisted or mistaken identities. |
| This means doing rather deviously or hypocritically what cannot be done directly. |
| But this hopeful breakthrough turned out to be no more than a deviously effective pretext for his escape. |
| Well, here's how I deviously kept the money from those who truly need it. |
| Little did the police and the authorities, particularly the Foreign Office, know that all along the defendant was deviously spinning a web of lies. |
