Duplicity
[djuː'plɪsɪtɪ;djʊ-] or [du'plɪsəti]
Definition
(noun.) acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another.
Typist: Nelly--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Dissimulation, chicanery, guile, deceit, deception, hypocrisy, circumvention, artifice, Machiavelism, double dealing.
Edited by Alexander
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ARTFUL]
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Examples
- Such duplicity! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- MY DEAR HARRIETTE, began young Berkeley, and then went on, with his usual, incorrigible duplicity and meanness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I beg your pardon, Maurice, but it was duplicity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- 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. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- A systematized divided attention expressing the duplicity of the state of desire is the result. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Xavier