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"devious" in Spanish

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"devious" in Spanish
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devious{adjective}
retorcido{adj. m}
sinuoso{adj. m}
The company must accept its own responsibilities and give up its confused and somewhat devious defensive tactics.
La empresa debe asumir sus responsabilidades y abandonar sus tácticas defensivas confusas y un tanto sinuosas.
torcido{adj.} (intenciones)
artero{adj.}
What is happening now is that the cheap beef from Argentina comes at such a price and with such devious ways of entering the country that this is really the problem now.
Lo que está ocurriendo ahora es que la carne de bovino de Argentina llega a un precio tan barato y entra de formas tan arteras, que ahora es el mayor problema en realidad.
zorro{adj.} [coll.]

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I believe it is the most devious and heinous threat that faces the world and especially the world economies.
Creo que es la más sucia y atroz amenaza que encara el mundo y, sobre todo, la economía mundial.
non-existent by the use of authoritarian and devious methods.
fueron disueltas o declaradas inexistentes.
I am very rarely devious, and I always warn you in advance, so that you know when it is coming.
Yo sólo soy maquiavélico en muy contadas ocasiones y en esos casos lo advierto de antemano, de modo que pueda estar sobre aviso.
There has been a technical problem, so no one was being devious; there was just a technical hitch.
Ha habido sólo un problema técnico, es decir, no se ha hablado con una doble lengua sino que ha habido sólo un problema técnico.
There are always ways and means, devious or otherwise, to get round this, and certainly children are very resourceful in this area.
Siempre habrá artimañas más o menos ingeniosas para eludir las medidas protectoras y sobre todo los niños son muy hábiles en burlarlas.
by devious means
con tejemanejes
by devious means
con artimañas
They are suffering because of the serious mistakes of a man who came to power, in a devious manner, via elections that were marked by violence and fraudulent practices.
Este sufrimiento se debe a los graves errores de un hombre que accedió al poder de manera fraudulenta, con elecciones caracterizadas por la violencia y el fraude.
At the same time, it is important that the devious employers who exploit people in a vulnerable position know that punishment and sanctions can be meted out anywhere in the EU.
Al mismo tiempo, es importante que los empresarios taimados, que explotan a la gente en una posición vulnerable, sepan que pueden imponerse sanciones en todos los rincones de la UE.
We do not want to accept any kind of devious machination which, through a fictitious increase in the European Parliament's powers, seeks merely to reduce the agricultural budget.
Por consiguiente, no deseamos aceptar un subterfugio que, a través de un aumento ficticio de los poderes del Parlamento Europeo, sólo tenga por objetivo una reducción del presupuesto agrícola.