duplicity

• Given this ambiguity and duplicity, the success of Baitullah Mehsud and his fellow terrorists should come as no surprise. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
• Perhaps the end of the Bush / Cheney era is the end as well of brazen duplicity, the vanquishing of moral authority, the infidelity to science, the institutionalization of greed and hoarding as virtues, the sanctimonious idolatry of the economy, the degradation of the environment, the dissipation of natural resources, the destruction of Earth as fit place for habitation by our children. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
• It was imperative that he should reprove and dismiss Cargrim for his duplicity, and most necessary for the rearrangement of their lives that Mrs Pendle should be informed of the untimely resurrection of her husband. —  The Bishop's Secret
• As a mask for their duplicity, the Germans even sent a message of sympathy for the loss of American lives through the sinking of the Lusitania; which but intensified the state of mind in this country Less than three weeks after the Lusitania outrage the American steamship Nebraskan was attacked (May 25) by a submarine. —  History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico
• It did not please her that, instead of bemoaning his own loss, he should be feeling a contempt for her duplicity--that he should use her to cure his passion, when she meant to wound him still deeper. —  Winter Evening Tales

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