NOUN
- acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
ADJECTIVE
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marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
a double-dealing double agent
a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer
she was a deceitful scheming little thing
How To Use double-dealing In A Sentence
- Yet despite presenting a hilarious letter from Bernini's mamma pegging her son as an out-and-out "narcissist"—Mr. Mormando's term—the biographer exculpates the master of any really malicious double-dealing. The Heirloom City
- Or is he a desperate, double-dealing politician fishing for votes in the San Fernando Valley?
- The best novels always say something other than what they appear to say; they speak most eloquently from the side of the mouth; they are cunning, double-dealing, and lavishly deceptive.
- He was a lying, deceitful, disingenuous, hopeless, untalented, flatulent, vainglorious, double-dealing, warmongering, blow-hard ... The Sun
- He would ultimately be released from the state institution where he was confined for four years, in a legal case that has all the drama and double-dealing of revenge tragedy.
- To take a leadership role on either side is to enter an atmosphere rife with double-dealing, propaganda, and spin.
- This dastardly double-dealing duo plays quite well together, injecting a great deal of sinister, urbane menace into the movie, and adding extra levels of complexity to the story.
- But how many of us realize that the patriotic ‘gunboat’ musicals popular at the turn of the century regularly put wily, double-dealing villains before the public?
- Your "trusted ally" in the War on Terror, Pakistan, may or may not be a double-dealing rat. Robert Brenner: Captain America vs. Osama Bin Laden
- U.S. officials are also increasingly frustrated by what they see as Islamabad's double-dealing. CIA Escalates in Pakistan
