Definition of duplicity in English:

duplicity

noun djuːˈplɪsɪtid(j)uˈplɪsədi

mass noun

1Deceitfulness.
the president was accused of duplicity in his dealings with Congress
Example sentencesExamples
- To say that this issue is too big for the people is to portray a myth, to portray a sham, to engage in an exercise in deceit, and to engage in an exercise in duplicity.
- We are-each and every one of us-a tangled mass of motives; hope and fear, faith and doubt, simplicity and duplicity, honesty and falsity, openness and guile.
- To promote and protect their interest, they used coercion, bribery and nepotism as state policy and created a culture of opportunism, deceit, duplicity, loot and plunder.
- After the war there was a Dutch parliamentary commission of investigation, but it discovered neither treachery nor duplicity.
- His affability and lack of duplicity did not set him in good stead for his dealings with the sleazier side of 1980s politics.
- There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige.
- Meanwhile in the aftermath of the war, the evidence of deception and duplicity that we experienced before and during the war has continued at pace.
- But given his deceit on foreign policy and duplicity on the nuclear issue, I think we have good reason to be suspicious.
- And then, in light of the company's history of serial duplicity and ham-fisted sponsoring subterfuge, they assume it must be rubbish.
- I know I am running the risk of DC finding out, and then being accused of duplicity, but at the moment I don't think she'd understand my reasons or my purpose.
- You have to admire the pretentious duplicity of these guys: they have elevated hypocrisy and lying to a new art form?
- It raised fundamental policy questions and confirmed antiwar critics' charges of high-level deception and duplicity.
- I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
- Although quickly buried by the media, they paint a graphic picture of fraud, duplicity and hypocrisy.
- But hypocrisy, duplicity and deception are recognized skills of diplomacy.
- Lying, cheating, deception and duplicity only matter when you lose, for the winners rewrite history.
- He said the biggest obstacle to a Yes vote was the Government, whose track record of deceit, and duplicity had now been shamefully exposed.
- It survives as a staple of film and television because it is highly photogenic, incorporating the undeniable dynamism of deceit and duplicity usually reserved for the spy story.
- Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge.
- They seem to have got some grim kick out out of their cunning, duplicity, guile and secrecy.
Synonyms
deceitfulness, deceit, deception, deviousness, two-facedness, double-dealing, underhandedness, dishonesty, falseness, falsity, fraud, fraudulence, sharp practice, swindling, cheating, chicanery, trickery, craft, guile, artifice, subterfuge, skulduggery, treachery, unfairness, unjustness, perfidy, improbity
informal crookedness, shadiness, foxiness, dirty tricks, shenanigans, monkey business, funny business, hanky-panky
British informal jiggery-pokery
North American informal monkeyshines
Irish informal codology
archaic knavery, knavishness, management
2archaic The state of being double.
Example sentencesExamples
- The samples were kept for 10 mins to ensure the attainment of thermal equilibrium, confirmed by the constancy of the duplicity.
- The white master, unable to detect the duplicity of slaves' language, became its victim.
- When her survey group becomes lost inside the cave, the author uses the experience to propel questions of the duplicity of maps and the ambiguities of human perception.
- This concurrence of disparate attitudes toward him creates an ambiguous point of view and indicates a duplicity, if not a multiplicity, of authorship.
- The very label, ‘African American’ intrinsically signifies a duplicity that remains misunderstood and unappreciated by many American and Africans.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French duplicite or late Latin duplicitas, from Latin duplic- 'twofold' (see duplex).

Definition of duplicity in US English:

duplicity

nound(y)o͞oˈplisədēd(j)uˈplɪsədi

1Deceitfulness; double-dealing.
奸诈，欺骗；两面派行为，表里不一
the president was accused of duplicity in his dealings with Congress
Example sentencesExamples
- We are-each and every one of us-a tangled mass of motives; hope and fear, faith and doubt, simplicity and duplicity, honesty and falsity, openness and guile.
- To promote and protect their interest, they used coercion, bribery and nepotism as state policy and created a culture of opportunism, deceit, duplicity, loot and plunder.
- Although quickly buried by the media, they paint a graphic picture of fraud, duplicity and hypocrisy.
- It raised fundamental policy questions and confirmed antiwar critics' charges of high-level deception and duplicity.
- And then, in light of the company's history of serial duplicity and ham-fisted sponsoring subterfuge, they assume it must be rubbish.
- They seem to have got some grim kick out out of their cunning, duplicity, guile and secrecy.
- After the war there was a Dutch parliamentary commission of investigation, but it discovered neither treachery nor duplicity.
- I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
- It survives as a staple of film and television because it is highly photogenic, incorporating the undeniable dynamism of deceit and duplicity usually reserved for the spy story.
- There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige.
- You have to admire the pretentious duplicity of these guys: they have elevated hypocrisy and lying to a new art form?
- He said the biggest obstacle to a Yes vote was the Government, whose track record of deceit, and duplicity had now been shamefully exposed.
- But hypocrisy, duplicity and deception are recognized skills of diplomacy.
- Lying, cheating, deception and duplicity only matter when you lose, for the winners rewrite history.
- Meanwhile in the aftermath of the war, the evidence of deception and duplicity that we experienced before and during the war has continued at pace.
- I know I am running the risk of DC finding out, and then being accused of duplicity, but at the moment I don't think she'd understand my reasons or my purpose.
- But given his deceit on foreign policy and duplicity on the nuclear issue, I think we have good reason to be suspicious.
- To say that this issue is too big for the people is to portray a myth, to portray a sham, to engage in an exercise in deceit, and to engage in an exercise in duplicity.
- His affability and lack of duplicity did not set him in good stead for his dealings with the sleazier side of 1980s politics.
- Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge.
Synonyms
deceitfulness, deceit, deception, deviousness, two-facedness, double-dealing, underhandedness, dishonesty, falseness, falsity, fraud, fraudulence, sharp practice, swindling, cheating, chicanery, trickery, craft, guile, artifice, subterfuge, skulduggery, treachery, unfairness, unjustness, perfidy, improbity
2archaic Doubleness.
〈古〉两重性，双重性
Example sentencesExamples
- The samples were kept for 10 mins to ensure the attainment of thermal equilibrium, confirmed by the constancy of the duplicity.
- The white master, unable to detect the duplicity of slaves' language, became its victim.
- The very label, ‘African American’ intrinsically signifies a duplicity that remains misunderstood and unappreciated by many American and Africans.
- This concurrence of disparate attitudes toward him creates an ambiguous point of view and indicates a duplicity, if not a multiplicity, of authorship.
- When her survey group becomes lost inside the cave, the author uses the experience to propel questions of the duplicity of maps and the ambiguities of human perception.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French duplicite or late Latin duplicitas, from Latin duplic- ‘twofold’ (see duplex).

词汇	duplicity
释义	Definition of duplicity in English: duplicity noun djuːˈplɪsɪtid(j)uˈplɪsədi mass noun 1Deceitfulness. the president was accused of duplicity in his dealings with Congress Example sentencesExamples To say that this issue is too big for the people is to portray a myth, to portray a sham, to engage in an exercise in deceit, and to engage in an exercise in duplicity. We are-each and every one of us-a tangled mass of motives; hope and fear, faith and doubt, simplicity and duplicity, honesty and falsity, openness and guile. To promote and protect their interest, they used coercion, bribery and nepotism as state policy and created a culture of opportunism, deceit, duplicity, loot and plunder. After the war there was a Dutch parliamentary commission of investigation, but it discovered neither treachery nor duplicity. His affability and lack of duplicity did not set him in good stead for his dealings with the sleazier side of 1980s politics. There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige. Meanwhile in the aftermath of the war, the evidence of deception and duplicity that we experienced before and during the war has continued at pace. But given his deceit on foreign policy and duplicity on the nuclear issue, I think we have good reason to be suspicious. And then, in light of the company's history of serial duplicity and ham-fisted sponsoring subterfuge, they assume it must be rubbish. I know I am running the risk of DC finding out, and then being accused of duplicity, but at the moment I don't think she'd understand my reasons or my purpose. You have to admire the pretentious duplicity of these guys: they have elevated hypocrisy and lying to a new art form? It raised fundamental policy questions and confirmed antiwar critics' charges of high-level deception and duplicity. I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of. Although quickly buried by the media, they paint a graphic picture of fraud, duplicity and hypocrisy. But hypocrisy, duplicity and deception are recognized skills of diplomacy. Lying, cheating, deception and duplicity only matter when you lose, for the winners rewrite history. He said the biggest obstacle to a Yes vote was the Government, whose track record of deceit, and duplicity had now been shamefully exposed. It survives as a staple of film and television because it is highly photogenic, incorporating the undeniable dynamism of deceit and duplicity usually reserved for the spy story. Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge. They seem to have got some grim kick out out of their cunning, duplicity, guile and secrecy. Synonyms deceitfulness, deceit, deception, deviousness, two-facedness, double-dealing, underhandedness, dishonesty, falseness, falsity, fraud, fraudulence, sharp practice, swindling, cheating, chicanery, trickery, craft, guile, artifice, subterfuge, skulduggery, treachery, unfairness, unjustness, perfidy, improbity informal crookedness, shadiness, foxiness, dirty tricks, shenanigans, monkey business, funny business, hanky-panky British informal jiggery-pokery North American informal monkeyshines Irish informal codology archaic knavery, knavishness, management 2archaic The state of being double. Example sentencesExamples The samples were kept for 10 mins to ensure the attainment of thermal equilibrium, confirmed by the constancy of the duplicity. The white master, unable to detect the duplicity of slaves' language, became its victim. When her survey group becomes lost inside the cave, the author uses the experience to propel questions of the duplicity of maps and the ambiguities of human perception. This concurrence of disparate attitudes toward him creates an ambiguous point of view and indicates a duplicity, if not a multiplicity, of authorship. The very label, ‘African American’ intrinsically signifies a duplicity that remains misunderstood and unappreciated by many American and Africans. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French duplicite or late Latin duplicitas, from Latin duplic- 'twofold' (see duplex). Definition of duplicity in US English: duplicity nound(y)o͞oˈplisədēd(j)uˈplɪsədi 1Deceitfulness; double-dealing. 奸诈，欺骗；两面派行为，表里不一 the president was accused of duplicity in his dealings with Congress Example sentencesExamples We are-each and every one of us-a tangled mass of motives; hope and fear, faith and doubt, simplicity and duplicity, honesty and falsity, openness and guile. To promote and protect their interest, they used coercion, bribery and nepotism as state policy and created a culture of opportunism, deceit, duplicity, loot and plunder. Although quickly buried by the media, they paint a graphic picture of fraud, duplicity and hypocrisy. It raised fundamental policy questions and confirmed antiwar critics' charges of high-level deception and duplicity. And then, in light of the company's history of serial duplicity and ham-fisted sponsoring subterfuge, they assume it must be rubbish. They seem to have got some grim kick out out of their cunning, duplicity, guile and secrecy. After the war there was a Dutch parliamentary commission of investigation, but it discovered neither treachery nor duplicity. I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of. It survives as a staple of film and television because it is highly photogenic, incorporating the undeniable dynamism of deceit and duplicity usually reserved for the spy story. There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige. You have to admire the pretentious duplicity of these guys: they have elevated hypocrisy and lying to a new art form? He said the biggest obstacle to a Yes vote was the Government, whose track record of deceit, and duplicity had now been shamefully exposed. But hypocrisy, duplicity and deception are recognized skills of diplomacy. Lying, cheating, deception and duplicity only matter when you lose, for the winners rewrite history. Meanwhile in the aftermath of the war, the evidence of deception and duplicity that we experienced before and during the war has continued at pace. I know I am running the risk of DC finding out, and then being accused of duplicity, but at the moment I don't think she'd understand my reasons or my purpose. But given his deceit on foreign policy and duplicity on the nuclear issue, I think we have good reason to be suspicious. To say that this issue is too big for the people is to portray a myth, to portray a sham, to engage in an exercise in deceit, and to engage in an exercise in duplicity. His affability and lack of duplicity did not set him in good stead for his dealings with the sleazier side of 1980s politics. Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge. Synonyms deceitfulness, deceit, deception, deviousness, two-facedness, double-dealing, underhandedness, dishonesty, falseness, falsity, fraud, fraudulence, sharp practice, swindling, cheating, chicanery, trickery, craft, guile, artifice, subterfuge, skulduggery, treachery, unfairness, unjustness, perfidy, improbity 2archaic Doubleness. 〈古〉两重性，双重性 Example sentencesExamples The samples were kept for 10 mins to ensure the attainment of thermal equilibrium, confirmed by the constancy of the duplicity. The white master, unable to detect the duplicity of slaves' language, became its victim. The very label, ‘African American’ intrinsically signifies a duplicity that remains misunderstood and unappreciated by many American and Africans. This concurrence of disparate attitudes toward him creates an ambiguous point of view and indicates a duplicity, if not a multiplicity, of authorship. When her survey group becomes lost inside the cave, the author uses the experience to propel questions of the duplicity of maps and the ambiguities of human perception. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French duplicite or late Latin duplicitas, from Latin duplic- ‘twofold’ (see duplex).
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