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 Translation for 'deviousness' from English to French
NOUN   deviousness | -
SYNO crookedness | deviousness | obliqueness
complexité {f}deviousness
caractère {m} retorsdeviousness
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Translation for 'deviousness' from English to French

deviousness
complexité {f}

caractère {m} retors
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Usage Examples English
  • One of his most prized possessions given to him by Holly Short at the end of "The Arctic Incident" was a fairy coin that she shot a hole through using the trigger finger he and Julius Root helped her to heal, to remind him "that deep beneath the layers of deviousness...has...a spark of decency".
  • Some assessed that Leanne's deviousness grew as writers developed her more.
  • The flaws that the song mentions include lying, temptation, trust, deviousness, and treason.
  • Nor does he account for the deviousness of the Duke of Hamilton, the official leader of the various factions opposed to the Union, who seemingly betrayed his former colleagues when he switched to the Unionist/Government side in the decisive final stages of the debate.
  • Later, during his campaign for CE elections, across the territory he is nicknamed "The Wolf" by some opponents – alluding to his cunning and deviousness, and as a pun of his name and the Chinese word for wolf.

  • Kate won the 2021 edition of The Weakest Link Christmas Special, answering every question correctly and displaying an impressive deviousness in the penultimate round by her choice of voting, ultimately winning £9000 for her chosen charity Baby Basics UK, a grassroots organisation dedicated to providing essentials for parents in poverty.
  • Angel Cohn of Television Without Pity gave the episode a B−, praising the episode for giving Robin the chance to show her deviousness, the performance by Ralph Macchio and having the entire cast involved in the main plot.
  • Most New Zealanders disliked the necessary deviousness.
  • There are many tales of the deviousness of the whisky smuggler in outwitting the gaugers (an itinerant exciseman who measured containers and their content), and the excisemen.
  • Andrews also stated when asked about 'good vs evil' in his work that he thinks more along the lines of dominant versus subordinate; that he is attempting to catch a moment of mystery or deviousness in his work.

  • He is narrow-minded, militarily inept and cowardly; while he is not presented as a clever man, he does display a certain cunning and deviousness.
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