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US
/duˈpɫɪsɪti/
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[ UK /djuːplˈɪsɪti/ ]
[ UK /djuːplˈɪsɪti/ ]
NOUN
- a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
- acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
How To Use duplicity In A Sentence
- Although quickly buried by the media, they paint a graphic picture of fraud, duplicity and hypocrisy.
- Dayton used the word "duplicity" in referring to the way stadium talks broke up Nov. 2 over Zellers' e-mail to Republican caucus members opposing a special session. StarTribune.com rss feed
- It has the secret of that honest simplicity which belongs to unspoiled youth, that keen integrity native to the ungalled spirit as yet unconscious of any duplicity in itself or of any inward reason why it should fail. The Life of Reason
- I must have looked desperate and downtrodden because she agreed to be party to the duplicity.
- He only discovered her duplicity when he found a marriage certificate in her handbag.
- You may tell me, if you like, that I am a _pandour_, and that my taste has been perverted by a life of unbridled Epicureanism; you may tell me that the charms of duplicity, of falsehood, and of this connivance in the guise of a childish deception, are exercising a morbid fascination over my demoralized heart. French and Oriental Love in a Harem
- So the world of Dali is undoubtedly one of duplicity, tricks, mysteries and illusions.
- His affability and lack of duplicity did not set him in good stead for his dealings with the sleazier side of 1980s politics.
- But this is less about intellectual property than about sheer intellectual duplicity. Times, Sunday Times
- Melchior," replied I, starting up, "let us have no more of this duplicity. Japhet in Search of a Father