Duplicity
[djuː'plɪsɪtɪ;djʊ-] or [du'plɪsəti]
解释:
(noun.) acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another.
录入:内丽--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Doubleness; a twofold state.
(n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
(n.) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
(n.) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.
弗朗西丝编辑
同义词及近义词:
n. Dissimulation, chicanery, guile, deceit, deception, hypocrisy, circumvention, artifice, Machiavelism, double dealing.
亚历山大校对
同义词及反义词:
[See ARTFUL]
布伦达编辑
例句:
- Such duplicity! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- MY DEAR HARRIETTE, began young Berkeley, and then went on, with his usual, incorrigible duplicity and meanness. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I beg your pardon, Maurice, but it was duplicity. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- If I were not afraid of judging harshly, I should be almost tempted to say that there is a strong appearance of duplicity in all this. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- A systematized divided attention expressing the duplicity of the state of desire is the result. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
录入:泽维尔