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  • n  the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
  • n  the quality of being deceitful and underhanded

  • Another, "Tell it like it is," conveys an abiding mistrust of what they consider adult deviousness.
  • His forthrightness is the plain speaking of a non-political person who has no patience for guile and deviousness.
  • And if, in addition to being a hyperactive polygamist, the father is an illiterate billionaire, then a certain amount of deviousness, among the older boys, shouldn't surprise us.

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