Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
Wiktionary
- adj. Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. exhibiting duplicity{2}; deceitful; double-dealing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
Examples
“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.”
The Washington Post: Sunnis' walkout mars political talks in Iraq
“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.”
“Go hangout with Sarah and Dick and continue to live in duplicitous stupid bliss!”
Think Progress » Pentagon pressured to cancel event hosting anti-Muslim evangelist speaker.
“Roy Moore may be many things, but duplicitous is not one of them.”
“He says, "They conduct what I call duplicitous PR campaigns.”
“They conduct what I call duplicitous PR campaigns.”
“If you survey informed Americans, you will hear Pakistanis described as duplicitous, paranoid, self-pitying and generally infuriating.”
“The most interesting part of WikiGate deals with Pakistan's supposedly "duplicitous" behavior in aiding the US-led war while maintaining secret links with Taliban and its allies.”
The Huffington Post: Eric Margolis: Wikigate - The Truth Will Out
“In addition the Iraqi government sees the Saudis as their biggest threat, the border wars with Yemen grow more deadly each year and relations with 'duplicitous' Syria have never fully recovered from the killing of Rafik Hariri in 2005.”
The Huffington Post: James Denselow: Where Next for Saudi Arabia?
“Comcast called Level 3's position "duplicitous" and said a previous deal for the companies to handle traffic for each other had become unbalanced in Level 3's favor.”
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If You Can't Say Anything Nice
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biased, cantankerous, caustic, contumacious, dilatory, disdain, duplicitous, fastidious, fractious, glower, haughty, imperious and 12 more...
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And i thought my words were "bad"!
malevolent, machiavellian, duplicitous, deceitful, rancorous, spiteful, malignant, cunning, vindictive, tyrannical, imperious, despotic and 10 more...
thinkcharlene Matlock - Season 5, Episode 13 - "The Critic" Oct 30, 2007