DEVIOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being deceitful and underhanded

Synonyms:

crookedness; deviousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("deviousness" is a kind of...):

dishonesty (the quality of being dishonest)

Derivation:

devious (indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading)

devious (characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive)

Meaning:

The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly

Synonyms:

deviousness; obliqueness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("deviousness" is a kind of...):

indirectness (having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal)

Derivation:

devious (deviating from a straight course)