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Noun: deviousness  dee-vee-us-nus
  1. The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
    - obliqueness
     
  2. The quality of being deceitful and underhanded
    - crookedness

Derived forms: deviousnesses

See also: devious

Type of: dishonesty, indirectness

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