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What does deviousness mean?

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Noun
  1. The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness.
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There is apt humor here and no less apt insight into the deviousness of the psyche.
When bad cops and crooks get together, the deviousness is doubled.
She seemed so innocent, her previous deviousness and cunning gone in a flash.
In his later career as an American Indian agent he earned a reputation for deviousness and dishonesty.
But if the migrants bike from a poor country to our rich one, they are demonstrating not British gumption but foreign deviousness.
You can always get what you want by bribery and corruption, dishonesty and deviousness.

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