How To Use Double-dealing In A Sentence
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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
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Or is he a desperate, double-dealing politician fishing for votes in the San Fernando Valley?
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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.
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He was a lying, deceitful, disingenuous, hopeless, untalented, flatulent, vainglorious, double-dealing, warmongering, blow-hard ...
The Sun
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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.
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To take a leadership role on either side is to enter an atmosphere rife with double-dealing, propaganda, and spin.
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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.
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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?
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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
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U.S. officials are also increasingly frustrated by what they see as Islamabad's double-dealing.
CIA Escalates in Pakistan
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Sam, who has bought the General Store, is immediately faced with the prospect of paying protection money to the town baddie, the double-dealing varmint who sold him the store in the first place.
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The double-dealing and back-stabbing illustrated the attitude of the Boston Irish gangster to informers.
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He was as devoted to secrecy as he was to power, and by intrigue and double-dealing he maintained an aura of aloofness.
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The local business community has been destroyed by corruption, cheating and double-dealing.
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For the rest, Non-jurant Priests, and the repression of them, will distract the King's conscience; Emigrant Princes and Noblesse will force him to double-dealing: there must be veto on veto; amid the ever-waxing indignation of men.
The French Revolution
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The votes for the host city are secret which is a great help to some of the double-dealing members who are able to fool several bid cities into believing they have voted for them.
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Amidst all this scandal and intrigue, these monumental moments of dramatic irony and double-dealing, all our hero can do is chatter.
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Even by the double-dealing standards of international diplomacy this is a breathtakingly cynical bargain.
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There has been much discussion about the alleged double-dealing of the Pakistani army and the proposals to cut U.S. aid.
Saad Khan: Obama's Mideast Speech Left Much to be Desired
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This dual deal was taken as a piece of double-dealing.
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His prior record of deception, double-dealing, and concealment makes that quite impossible.
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How often do you hear a musical which exposes, as this does, inner-city corruption, systematic intimidation and double-dealing over slum-clearance with the poor exploited?
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That piece of double-dealing was the last straw.
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Thus Allan Border, an inexperienced and unregarded captain, came to England without the team he wanted and with the whole atmosphere in the camp poisoned by the double-dealing.
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For all its double-dealing and the strutting vanities of both men and women, particularly Rachael Stirling's affected Melinda, a woman who is all "ears" and graces, it has a sweet heart.
The Recruiting Officer - review
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I reject outright accusations of double-dealing and dishonesty and stand on our record.
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It was this person who at the Lushan Meeting put his utmost efforts into a counter - revolutionary double-dealing tactic, and actively backed Peng Teh - huai's anti - Party activities.
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Marriages were broken and lives ruined by the revelation of double-dealing.
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Sen. Ben Nelson D., Neb. also lashed out at what he termed Pakistan's "double-dealing.
Panetta Won't Specify Pace of Afghan Troop Drawdown
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He accuses the double-dealing Guildenstern of manipulating him as a musician does his instrument.
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In Crown & Country he provides the reader with enough intellectual rigour to impart context, before livening the page with pithy tales of treachery or cruelty, of double-dealing or disaster.
Crown & Country by David Starkey - review
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But as events take a number of twisty turns, no allegiance is as clear as it first seems and back-stabbing, double-dealing and compromise are the order of the day.
Catch-up TV Guide: From Borgen to Brighton Rock
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When this information about double-dealing finally became public in May, it made no difference to most councillors.
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His intelligent double-dealing ensures that everyone gets what's coming to them, while the way in which he handles some of the film's tougher characters (especially a man with a knife) has to be seen to be believed.
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He will contrast that alleged double-dealing with his unvarnished pledge to reduce the overall tax burden in the UK year on year on year.
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It also purveyed the well-thumbed Roman myths: that everyone in the ancient world was a backstabbing, double-dealing, amoral schemer, and that none of them could muster the self-control of a priapic ferret or the wisdom of a brick.
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The double-dealing and back-stabbing illustrated the attitude of the Boston Irish gangster to informers.
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Even by the double-dealing standards of international diplomacy this is a breathtakingly cynical bargain.
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Because he was in such a high position and because the amounts involved each time were relatively small - only a few hundred pounds at a time - the thefts went unnoticed until February this year when his double-dealing was finally exposed.
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By and large, he is a dramatist of deception and double-dealing, an architect of environments that entrap and extinguish their inhabitants.
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But can a misshapen, double-dealing, prince-murdering, widow-wooing king ever be more than a mere shadow of evil - compared to an aspiring musical theatre lead?
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Because it involves duplicity and double-dealing, nobody emerges with clean hands.
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Really, how could anyone accuse an American televangelist of being your run-of-the-mill, double-dealing, dishonest preacher?
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Sam, who has bought the General Store, is immediately faced with the prospect of paying protection money to the town baddie, Parker Tillman, the double-dealing varmint who sold him the store in the first place.
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She hits back, setting into motion an unlikely but highly watchable tale of deceit, double-dealing, divorce and international fraud.
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In the whole nauseating story of double-dealing that has bedevilled cricket over the last year or so, nothing has been more intriguing than our own almost comical realisation that there is a very fair chance of English involvement.
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But ‘progressives’ are not alone in their mendacity and double-dealing.
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Her methods of double-dealing had become more and more refined over time, and through cleverness and acts, and she was never caught by either side.
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And Jacob, who bests his kin, his own twin, twice over with guile, will be outmaneuvered and outdone ten times over by his wilier double-dealing uncle.
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The story is complex, involving historical events and intrigues and all manner of double-dealing amongst the competing factions.
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In Seven Samurai, Fujiwara was memorable as Manzo, the double-dealing farmer who forces his daughter to disguise herself as a boy so none of the hired warriors runs away with her.
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Part of the problem with Out of Time is that most audiences will be way ahead of the double-dealing plot.
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We must give the young people a clear idea of the aggressive nature and double-dealing tactics of the US imperialists and prevent them from having any illusion about the imperialists.
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a double-dealing double agent
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Marriages were broken and lives ruined by the revelation of double-dealing.
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This is a shadowy world of rumour, double-dealing and half-truths.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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What makes this outstanding book so vivid and fresh is not only the story it has to tell - a breathless tale of butchery, realpolitik and endless double-dealing - but also the manner of its telling.
