devious Definition

devious
adj

1. Not totally open or honest; deceitful.

Thesaurus: scheming, crafty, deceitful, dishonest, sly, deep, subtle, calculating, tricky, surreptitious, wily, underhand, double-dealing, two-faced; Antonym: artless.
2. Cunning; able to think up clever and usually deceitful ways of achieving things, etc.
3. Not direct.

Example: came by a devious route

Derivative: deviously
adverb

Derivative: deviousness
noun

Etymology: 17c; 16c, meaning ‘remote or out of the way': from Latin devius, from de from + via road.