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deviously

adverb

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adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English devious Middle English -ly English -ly English deviously From devious + -ly.

  1. In a devious manner.

    Shirley worked deviously, of course. Having, under a name not her own, achieved fame by Tarbellizing the plutocrat in a book, and having (still in disguise) been given by the simple minded great man command of his most private papers […]

    And what conversation becomes then is a sustained strip or tract of referencings, each referencing tending to bear, but often deviously, some retrospectively perceivable connection to the immediately preceding one.

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