Example Sentences

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Even more deviously, some Vegas properties force customers to pay a premium to access friendlier rules.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025

And let’s be clear: These three can craft a hook as neatly and as skillfully — as deviously, really — as anyone in the business.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

Halle as Ariel, of course, Melissa McCarthy as the deviously manipulating Ursula, Jonah Hauer-King as the charming Prince Eric, Daveed Diggs as the annoyingly lovable crustation Sebastian and Javier Bardem as the ever-so-powerful King Triton.

From Salon • May 31, 2023

Some of that work can be done from Earth, but as Dimorphos is deviously demonstrating, tiny objects are hard targets for remote studies.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2021

A prying charm will be met with a stronger charm, subtle devices will fail, devious inquiries will be deviously thwarted, and force will be turned ruinously back upon itself.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin