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duplicity

/doo-plis-i-tee, dyoo-/US // duˈplɪs ɪ ti, dyu- //UK // (djuːˈplɪsɪtɪ) //

二重性,二元性,两性关系,二心

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural du·plic·i·ties for 2, 3.

    • : deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing.
    • : an act or instance of such deceitfulness.
    • : Law. the act or fact of including two or more offenses in one count, or charge, as part of an indictment, thus violating the requirement that each count contain only a single offense.
    • : the state or quality of having two elements or parts; being twofold or double.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundeception
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Examples

  • The devil may be the ultimate trickster, but for pure duplicity, he’s got nothing on them.

  • Is behind-the-scenes duplicity, cloaked in coming-of-age business dilemma, the new norm for major-label moves?

  • But for a man who delighted in exposing hypocrisies, his relationship to Communism was riddled with duplicity.

  • His spineless duplicity confirms that the good guy is actually pretty much a louse.

  • It even escalates the discomfort and duplicity by magnitudes.

  • Palestinians and their sympathizers can point out the unscrupulous dishonesty and duplicity of the Israeli occupiers.

  • The seed of discontent was again germinating under the duplicity of the Spanish lay and clerical authorities.

  • This may be what Fordun has in view when he says that the duplicity of the English was at length laid bare.

  • Also, it has some of the elements of modern international diplomacy in its double-talk and duplicity.

  • He was not used to treading the quicksands of duplicity, and he felt himself sinking.

  • She could not condemn him for that, any more than she could forget her father's duplicity.