"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Half of the bribes taken in that vast government office went back by devious and secret means to the politicians.
- Given the present situation, his plans had to be countered by equally devious means.
- He usually killed through devious means, rarely in open combat against a worthy opponent.
- "Well, don't expect me not to use every devious means I can think of to persuade you otherwise."
- And what she didn't know, she endeavored to find out, often through devious means.
- But it seemed an oddly devious means of introduction.
- If the church is weak, it attempts by devious means to turn its creed and discipline into law.
- There were some items he had managed to secure either by favors or more devious means.
- Both in terms of getting the news back home by more devious means, and doing something direct about the problem.
- But after all the canon had, by no matter what devious means, rescued him.
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