How To Use Duplicity In A Sentence
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There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige.
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I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
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Nor will I tolerate any lying or duplicity.
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That sounds like honesty rather than duplicity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Love, sex, duplicity, betrayal - the abiding themes of literature are all there, along with the fascinating twist that it's all going on under the watchful eye of the public.
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She claimed to be going off to invigilate an exam for a friend, but I sensed duplicity in the air.
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Eventually they will become so distracted, and their relationships will be so corroded by duplicity and miscommunication, that they will simply give up and die out.
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The other Rebuplican duplicity is to label a piece of legislation opposite of it's intended purpose ( "Healthy Forest Initiative" = cut down the last of America's old-growth forest, "Clean Skies Initiative" = relax pollution laws, release more mercury, sulfer dioxide, etc.)
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Indulge at length your preoccupation with lying, bullying, malice, chicanery, duplicity and revenge.
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In fact, it seems that the only people privy to the scheming duplicity of most of the contestants are the camera operators.
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But given his deceit on foreign policy and duplicity on the nuclear issue, I think we have good reason to be suspicious.
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Wolcott is referring to Niccolò Machiavelli, a philosopher and writer in the Italian Renaissance, who inspired the political term Machiavellianism, defined as "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct," according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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A nightwatchman later overheard him bragging about his duplicity and arrested him.
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I remember them alleging malice, pride and duplicity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Melchior," replied I, starting up; "let us have no more of this duplicity.
Japhet, in Search of a Father
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Paredes saw that neither diplomacy nor duplicity were of any avail and prepared to defend the city against attack.
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His duplicity would have been fatal in anyone less gifted.
The Times Literary Supplement
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That, alone, which has to be guarded against is the falsity, the instinctive duplicity which _would fain_ regard this antithesis as no antithesis at all: just as Wagner did, — and his mastery in this kind of falseness was of no mean order.
The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
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He only discovered her duplicity when he found a marriage certificate in her handbag.
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They seem to have got some grim kick out out of their cunning, duplicity, guile and secrecy.
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Perhaps there had even been a kind of innocence in our duplicity.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary 'Machiavellianism' is "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct", but as the quote above from 'The Prince' shows Machiavelli was also a pragmatic realist.
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Because it involves duplicity and double-dealing, nobody emerges with clean hands.
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What they called duplicity was, ironically, my sincere effort at authenticity.
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And then, in light of the company's history of serial duplicity and ham-fisted sponsoring subterfuge, they assume it must be rubbish.
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Meanwhile Burkhart and her subject not surprisingly form a bond of sisterhood before our eyes in their shared malignment by duplicity.
G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is?
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I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
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In some circles that type of duplicity is called, hypocrisy!!!
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Beginning in the mid-1990s, Francione exposed the duplicity of "new welfarists" who use the term "animal rights" but pursue "welfarist" policies.
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One example of the duplicity of this rhetoric of inevitability concerns the nation state.
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The easiest explanation of crater duplicity is that the impacting body was an asteroid with a close satellite.
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Duplicity runs throughout the description, where there is always conspiracy and simulation in the shadowy background.
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You have to admire the pretentious duplicity of these guys: they have elevated hypocrisy and lying to a new art form?
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Malcolm believed he was guilty of duplicity in his private dealings.
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It was Amy who correctly assessed her brother, although not even she plumbed the depths of his duplicity.
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After the war there was a Dutch parliamentary commission of investigation, but it discovered neither treachery nor duplicity.
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The only thing that has changed is the capacity of the clerical culture to sustain the duplicity.
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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.
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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.
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Victorian morality and its inherent contradictions wouldn't have blinked at the pair's duplicity.
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It raised fundamental policy questions and confirmed antiwar critics' charges of high-level deception and duplicity.
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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.
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At the same time, the artist alludes to the real world, having it out with hypocrisy and duplicity.
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The very label, ‘African American’ intrinsically signifies a duplicity that remains misunderstood and unappreciated by many American and Africans.
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The play's targets – establishment fustiness, snobbery, racism and duplicity – aren't surprising, but the serpentine subtlety of the plotting is.
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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.
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He is particularly scathing about one member whom he characterises as callous, spineless and non-confrontational to the point of duplicity.
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They seem to have got some grim kick out out of their cunning, duplicity, guile and secrecy.
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Lying, cheating, deception and duplicity only matter when you lose, for the winners rewrite history.
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She gave him a pointed look, alerting him that she was aware of his duplicity.
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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.
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There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige.
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They know me! they are cautious!" muttered Sybil, biting her lips with suppressed fury; for their forbearance, which she called duplicity, enraged her more than all their flirting had done.
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Mr. Friedman, who's been writing his column for over a decade (before that he co-edited New York magazine's Intelligencer column and contributed to The Observer), has been a controversial figure for negative things he's written, like a recent column on Julia Roberts in which he called her demeanor at the premiere of Duplicity "unexpected and chilling.
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Compared to his duplicity, their single-hearted yearning seems almost naive.
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Although quickly buried by the media, they paint a graphic picture of fraud, duplicity and hypocrisy.
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This concurrence of disparate attitudes toward him creates an ambiguous point of view and indicates a duplicity, if not a multiplicity, of authorship.
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Soon, helped by his younger brother and armed with only his own duplicity, acumen and dumb luck, Yuri has become a highly successful international gunrunner.
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Melchior," replied I, starting up, "let us have no more of this duplicity.
Japhet in Search of a Father
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But this is less about intellectual property than about sheer intellectual duplicity.
Times, Sunday Times
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His affability and lack of duplicity did not set him in good stead for his dealings with the sleazier side of 1980s politics.
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So the world of Dali is undoubtedly one of duplicity, tricks, mysteries and illusions.
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You may tell me, if you like, that I am a _pandour_, and that my taste has been perverted by a life of unbridled Epicureanism; you may tell me that the charms of duplicity, of falsehood, and of this connivance in the guise of a childish deception, are exercising a morbid fascination over my demoralized heart.
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He only discovered her duplicity when he found a marriage certificate in her handbag.
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I must have looked desperate and downtrodden because she agreed to be party to the duplicity.
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It has the secret of that honest simplicity which belongs to unspoiled youth, that keen integrity native to the ungalled spirit as yet unconscious of any duplicity in itself or of any inward reason why it should fail.
The Life of Reason
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Dayton used the word "duplicity" in referring to the way stadium talks broke up Nov. 2 over Zellers' e-mail to Republican caucus members opposing a special session.
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Increasingly, Mr Kabila's duplicity and intransigence were seen by all as the chief obstacle to any such agreement.
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The samples were kept for 10 mins to ensure the attainment of thermal equilibrium, confirmed by the constancy of the duplicity.
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Children in such families are quick to be inoculated with the germ of duplicity.
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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.
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The white master, unable to detect the duplicity of slaves' language, became its victim.
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Perhaps there had even been a kind of innocence in our duplicity.
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Perhaps there had even been a kind of innocence in our duplicity.
THE EXECUTION
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Folks, duplicity is equally hollow in the newspaper business as it is in politics.
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But I think his duplicity is relevant to his character as someone who has built his career on exposing other's private lives.
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However, for God to address humans this way is anthropomorphism, for God accommodates human communication, and when we speak to one another this way, we do it without duplicity.
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He said the biggest obstacle to a Yes vote was the Government, whose track record of deceit, and duplicity had now been shamefully exposed.
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I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
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It was uncomfortable having to keep up a false front, and we regretted the distance our duplicity created.
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The word connotes secrecy and duplicity, but the perpetrators have been completely up front and honest about their goals and about their motives.
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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.
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Practicing the art of duplicity in simulating physical ailments will, if persisted in, establish nosophobia.
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But hypocrisy, duplicity and deception are recognized skills of diplomacy.
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That's one of the bad things about being simple-hearted: sometimes you don't even recognize the duplicity and treachery going on around you.
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His duplicity is self evident in his own statements.
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Lying, cheating, deception and duplicity only matter when you lose, for the winners rewrite history.
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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.
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At the same time, the artist alludes to the real world, having it out with hypocrisy and duplicity.
