At times you had to employ a certain desperate deviousness to get the job done.

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And cynics will take the message too far, justifying every kind of deviousness and inflexibility.

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But perhaps no better could be expected from an industry that has proved singularly dim in its deviousness.

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His daring and deviousness both showed themselves early.

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The councils advise against such deviousness.

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