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duplicity Noun deceitful behaviour: he is a man of duplicity, who turns things to his advantage [Old French duplicite]
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duplicity noun deceit, fraud, deception, hypocrisy, dishonesty, guile, artifice, falsehood, double-dealing, chicanery, perfidy, dissimulation << OPPOSITE honesty Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Schulz has been turning a remarkably penetrating searchlight on the anxieties and evasions and duplicities that make up our common lot; and, as Mr. Late-Imperial Russia was awash in documentary forgeries, domestic spying, and counterspying, with revolutionaries and the Czarist secret police often involved in complex duplicities. Similarly Fallon detects in the voyage of Satan from Hell through Chaos to Eden analogies to the dangers various of Cromwell's diplomatic envoys to the Continent faced and the duplicities they were obliged to practice in pursuit of their missions. |
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