About The Word Duplicity
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Duplicity
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What's The Definition Of Duplicity?
[n] acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
[n] a fraudulent or duplicitous representation Synonyms | Synonyms for Duplicity: double-dealing | fraudulence Related Terms | Find terms related to Duplicity: ambidexterity | ambiguity | ambivalence | artfulness | artifice | bad faith | biformity | bifurcation | conjugation | craft | cunning | deceit | deceitfulness | dichotomy | dirty pool | dirty trick | dirty work | dishonesty | dissemblance | dissimulation | double-dealing | doubleness | doubleness of heart | doublethink | doubling | dualism | duality | duplexity | duplication | equivocality | faithlessness | falseheartedness | falseness | foul play | furtiveness | guile | halving | hypocrisy | improbity | indirection | insidiousness | irony | Janus | low cunning | Machiavellianism | pairing | perfidiousness | perfidy | polarity | shiftiness | sneak attack | sneakiness | surreptitiousness | treacherousness | treachery | twinning | two-facedness | twoness | underhandedness | wile See Also | deceit | deceit | deception | deception | dissembling | dissimulation | misrepresentation Duplicity In Webster's Dictionary \Du*plic"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Duplicities}. [F.
duplicit['e], L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See
{Duplex}.]
1. Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic]
Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any
certain number of parts in your division of things.
--I. Watts.
2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained
form of deception which consists in entertaining or
pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if
influenced by another; bad faith.
Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he
acted his part with alacrity and resolution.
--Burke.
3. (Law)
(a) The use of two or more distinct allegations or
answers, where one is sufficient. --Blackstone.
(b) In indictments, the union of two incompatible
offenses. --Wharton.
Syn: Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception;
falsehood.
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