How To Use Duplicitous In A Sentence
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Anyway this convenient duopoly is the making of an inherently corrupt and duplicitous crooks called our politicians and elected officials.
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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.
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He promised to take duplicitous physicians before a medical ethics board and strip them of their credentials.
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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.
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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.
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But it's deceptive, duplicitous, and deceitful.
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And including the original instrumental ‘Good Day Sunshine’ might've been seen as a duplicitous trick to grab gobs of Beatles fans' money.
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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.
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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.
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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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He'd done a lot of things that could be considered underhanded, even duplicitous.
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I wouldn't put it quite like that, but it is overjoying -- in an environment where originalism is constantly, pervasively, deliberately and duplicitously misrepresented as "the theory of original intent" -- to see a journalist hitting the nail squarely on the head in a book aimed at the mass market.
"Bill Rehnquist was concerned about efficiency. He didn't want to waste time. You could raise your hand, but it was not encouraged."
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We understand (but do not feel) that these characters are intricately nestled in an odd dynamic, showing love in strange ways, acting duplicitously towards each other.
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He'd done a lot of things that could be considered underhanded, even duplicitous.
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They exposed the United States and its athletes as the whingeing, mewling, cheating, two-faced, lying, duplicitous, sanctimonious shower that they are.
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On their website the duo duplicitously claim almost none of their lyrics are about ‘love.’
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The judge found her controlling, manipulative, duplicitous and obstructive.
Times, Sunday Times
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For now ... these states 'core values are too different from the ones espoused, however partially and duplicitously, by the international community's main players," Castañeda concludes. [email protected]
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The moment of high drama came when members of the Iraqiya bloc - which, by a slim margin, won more seats in Iraq's 325-member parliament than any other bloc - walked out of the session to protest what they called duplicitous tactics by political rivals and broken promises to roll back a controversial law that they feel unfairly targeted their members.
Sunnis' walkout mars political talks in Iraq
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They are weak, petulant, hypocritical, disunited, duplicitous, sometimes anti-Semitic, and often anti-American appeasers.
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duplicitously" at the behest of the German government.
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He ended up cast out of his native society after he realized the duplicitousness of his superiors' dealings with the Africans.
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Unfortunately -- aside from just the spuriousness of Clinton's invective itself -- this reinforces the perception of duplicitousness and double-talk.
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The watchdog said that tackling duplicitous pricing practices could save consumers billions of pounds a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Does THIS duplicitousness now show how Gender-feminists only want accountability in the law when it suits them?
Balkinization
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The dramatic situation among the speaker, the young man and the dark lady comes into view, with passion, sexual ambiguity and duplicitousness.
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I understand the anger at the duplicitousness, but from what I read R.R. was against the law.
Balkinization
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It reveals a shockingly casual attitude about the millions of women and girls who have died because of men's sexist and duplicitous behavior.
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But arousing the public duplicitously should be acknowledged by all as the disgrace it is.
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We should be in criminal court this very moment, trying this obscenely duplicitous school for conspiracy to commit murder.
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By voluntarily accepting to be a frontline ally in the war on terror—albeit often duplicitously, and in exchange for money—Pakistan's leaders arguably already consented to bin Laden being killed on their territory.
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If you say does one bout of marital infidelity mean he is habitually duplicitous, then no, I don't draw that parallel.
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After years of attacking the creativity of every other wine-producing nation for borrowing their names, this is a bit rich, but, given France's ancient tradition of duplicitous behaviour, not surprising.
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The duplicitousness of this administration never ceases to amaze.
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Of course, the implications of the advertisement are duplicitous and insulting both to the readers and to the portions of society that the spokesperson represents.
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In the older system, wherein outward actions were most important, ‘true’ (that is, honourable) intentions could justify crafty and duplicitous acts.
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Are people, today, even aware of what dialectics is and how, like with Health insurance folks, its duplicitous underpinnings operate and get people, like Rush fans, to vote against their avowed interests?
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What the writer is trying to do is so simple in its moral duplicitousness that it deserves no polite reply.
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Perhaps this context of guarded or duplicitous speech illumines the doubletalk on Paul's part.
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That diplomacy is often duplicitous is no news.
Times, Sunday Times
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The term ambassador conjures the picture of a rich duplicitous Jeremy Irons-type guy living in a foreign country and lying to everyone there on behalf of rich guys back in his home country.
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He says, "They conduct what I call duplicitous PR campaigns.
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It is racist because they are not law; they are a set of slogans and duplicitous words designed just to postpone definition until later.
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How quickly it got duplicitous, deceitful, diabolical, and it just came out really in last episode where the beginning of an alliance was forming.
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BRAGMAN: Well, first of all, look at what he has done to date, almost all of his decisions have been bad from a PR perspective, from the duplicitousness from the beginning to the way everything has been handled very badly.
CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2009
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Claiming a misunderstanding may help one avoid prosecution by the IRS, but when you're going to be heading Treasury, claiming misunderstanding of such simple concepts shows basic ignorance in your field at best, or a duplicitousness that has no place in government at worst.
Tim Geithner — does he belong in the Cabinet or the prison?
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But it seemed to me to be perfectly, obviously immoral, duplicitous and unfair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roy Moore may be many things, but duplicitous is not one of them.
Letters to the Editor
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Using the word trickery implies duplicitousness on Nature's part.
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When political hot air is turning into cold blood, when duplicitous spin is becoming lethal, somebody's got to speak up.
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You are absolutely right to point out their sanctimonious duplicitousness however, my biggest issue with liberalism.
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Mullings' portrayal of the duplicitous wife is forced and superficial.
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The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mt. Cannel – and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people.
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And the majority of marriages that fail do so invariably because one or other of the spouses actively chooses to indulge in unpleasant or duplicitous behaviour.
The Sun
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We cannot have such a morally bankrupt, devious, duplicitous, disingenuous and cold-hearted ‘little king’ returned to power this year.
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He then campaigned duplicitously for a 'no' vote.
Times, Sunday Times
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He promised to take duplicitous physicians before a medical ethics board and strip them of their credentials.
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She agreed that the scoundrels should be jailed - just like, she added, miscreant priests and their duplicitous protectors among the bishops.
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The first two episodes featured MotW Monster of the Week villains; a haggish witch out for revenge against the King and a duplicitous knight whose attempts at cheating would put Sammy Sosa to shame.
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This relates to American exceptionalism, which makes great allowances for seemingly hypocritical or duplicitous behavior as conducted by our leaders.
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That is the way Labour members operate - duplicitously.
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That may or may not be true (Bibi Netanyahu duplicitous — heaven forfend!).
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Typical liberal duplicitousness, a majority of Democrats wanted George W Bush to fail.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
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These serve a duplicitous ideological function in the manner of advertising slogans.
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It is applied duplicitously by the ‘supply-siders.’
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He said: ‘I think it is underhanded and duplicitous and it is double standards.’
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I love it loads more than I love the duplicitous, double dealing, promise breaking government whom I once loved and now hate.
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Thomson herself does not fully capture the risk in Mirandolina's skillful duplicitousness or the sense she may be getting caught in her own trap.
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A scene where Vinny stages a series of fake auto accidents to raise the funeral money is laugh-out-loud funny for its matter-of-fact duplicitousness.
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He did brief officials, including MacKay, about the problems of the NDS, which he described as duplicitous and open to manipulation by politically powerful people behind the scenes.
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The buffs who push the occupation argument have duplicitously taken the ruling out of context and applied a few cherry-picked words of the tribunal literally.
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Four bored ghosts duplicitously call on our heroic paranormal exterminators to brush up on their scare tactics and have a little fun.
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Instead of her being devious, duplicitous, and incompetent, perhaps she could answer the question.
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The web's ability to dredge duplicitous schemes from the corporate-governmental shadows into the noonday glare is a great advance, one with implications that reach far beyond food policy.
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If you survey informed Americans, you will hear Pakistanis described as duplicitous, paranoid, self-pitying and generally infuriating.
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When it comes to deceiving the public, it is obvious that neither political party has a monopoly: both are equally duplicitous.
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The party leadership's sometimes duplicitousness and slipperiness on the issue of Europe is what will cost us our place in the EU.
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This policy actually has a lot of logic to it, so we should perhaps give them credit for their good sense, if not their duplicitousness.
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But should we be amazed by the insight that our memories are not inviolable, or that identity is duplicitous, or that many of us spend our entire lives trying to please our parents?
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As its name suggests, it is a ‘double-agency’, a duplicitous creature.
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Go hangout with Sarah and Dick and continue to live in duplicitous stupid bliss!
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He is self-important, quick-tempered, duplicitous and vicious.
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They conduct what I call duplicitous PR campaigns.
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Perhaps this context of guarded or duplicitous speech illumines the doubletalk on Paul's part.
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But for McCain to hold those two positions simultaneously requires no duplicitousness and no tortured logic.
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Taconic, which was a finalist in the bidding, has filed a lawsuit in New York state court against the seller, Mountbatten Equities, alleging that the firm "cynically and duplicitously" used Taconic as a "stalking horse" bidder to increase the sale price.
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There was such poignancy as McQueen spoke about the adoration of his Scottish roots and duplicitously being a London boy.
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They are duplicitous and devious, always posing, not wishing or able to be authentic.