double-dealing

How To Use double-dealing In A Sentence

• Sam, who has bought the General Store, is immediately faced with the prospect of paying protection money to the town baddie, Parker Tillman, the double-dealing varmint who sold him the store in the first place.
• In Crown & Country he provides the reader with enough intellectual rigour to impart context, before livening the page with pithy tales of treachery or cruelty, of double-dealing or disaster. Crown & Country by David Starkey - review
• But as events take a number of twisty turns, no allegiance is as clear as it first seems and back-stabbing, double-dealing and compromise are the order of the day. Catch-up TV Guide: From Borgen to Brighton Rock
• When this information about double-dealing finally became public in May, it made no difference to most councillors.
• His intelligent double-dealing ensures that everyone gets what's coming to them, while the way in which he handles some of the film's tougher characters (especially a man with a knife) has to be seen to be believed.
• He will contrast that alleged double-dealing with his unvarnished pledge to reduce the overall tax burden in the UK year on year on year.
• It also purveyed the well-thumbed Roman myths: that everyone in the ancient world was a backstabbing, double-dealing, amoral schemer, and that none of them could muster the self-control of a priapic ferret or the wisdom of a brick.
• The double-dealing and back-stabbing illustrated the attitude of the Boston Irish gangster to informers.
• Even by the double-dealing standards of international diplomacy this is a breathtakingly cynical bargain.
• Because he was in such a high position and because the amounts involved each time were relatively small - only a few hundred pounds at a time - the thefts went unnoticed until February this year when his double-dealing was finally exposed.