duplicitous

[ UK /djuːplˈɪsɪtəs/ ]
[ US /duˈpɫɪsɪtəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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How To Use duplicitous In A Sentence

  • Anyway this convenient duopoly is the making of an inherently corrupt and duplicitous crooks called our politicians and elected officials. Comcast Is Now 3rd Largest U.S. Phone Company*
  • And what I'm saying is duplicitous about that is, at the same time, in the United States, only in the last few weeks, the farm bill was passed subsidizing American agricultural projects.
  • He promised to take duplicitous physicians before a medical ethics board and strip them of their credentials.
  • They show some admiration for the devious things that they perceive women to be doing but, on the other hand, they decry that same duplicitousness.
  • If one sees politics as nothing but the organized pursuit of self-interest, then all talk of a public purpose is bound to appear disingenuous or duplicitous.
  • But it's deceptive, duplicitous, and deceitful.
  • And including the original instrumental ‘Good Day Sunshine’ might've been seen as a duplicitous trick to grab gobs of Beatles fans' money.
  • But any woman who could use that word pedant, I reasoned, call her ex-husband “duplicitous” and a “narcissist,” and describe an assistant manager we both worked for as a “troglodyte” was a woman I felt I could spend time talking to and perhaps even want to live with, despite the three kids, a first husband, and her extra year in age. Closing Time
  • Because of my understanding of the ideals to which some of you devote your very existence, I cannot think of anything more duplicitous than engaging in a campus war game like many of your first-year comrades have decided to do.
  • In saying one thing and doing something else she's simply underscored the duplicitousness we all feel politicians are capable of.
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