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with Anu Gargdevious
PRONUNCIATION:
(DEE-vee-uhs)
MEANING:
adjective:1. Departing from the straight or the usual way. 2. Sneaky; underhanded. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin devius (out of the way), from de- (out of) + via (way).
Ultimately from the Indo-European root wegh- (to go or to transport
in a vehicle) that resulted in words such as deviate, way, weight,
wagon, vogue, vehicle, vector, envoy, and trivial.
USAGE:
"Life has a devious way of hiding the edge of the cliff."Ed Stephens Jr.; Sun! Sand! Co-payments! Saipan Tribune (North Mariana Islands); Aug 28, 2009. "With John Jowett, he's laid bare British politicians' and lobbyists' devious, sneaky, Machiavellian manoeuvrings in a comedy that may leave audiences wondering if this kind of farce goes on closer to home." Sharu Delilkan; It's A Drag Playing A Political Leader; The Aucklander (New Zealand); Aug 27, 2009. See more usage examples of devious in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask. -Michio Kaku, physicist (b. 1947)
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