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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective exhibiting duplicity{2}; deceitful; double-dealing.
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- adjective Given to or marked by
deliberate deceptiveness inbehavior orspeech .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
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Examples
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The moment of high drama came when members of the Iraqiya bloc - which, by a slim margin, won more seats in Iraq's 325-member parliament than any other bloc - walked out of the session to protest what they called duplicitous tactics by political rivals and broken promises to roll back a controversial law that they feel unfairly targeted their members.
Sunnis' walkout mars political talks in Iraq Leila Fadel 2010
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The moment of high drama came when members of the Iraqiya bloc - which, by a slim margin, won more seats in Iraq's 325-member parliament than any other bloc - walked out of the session to protest what they called duplicitous tactics by political rivals and broken promises to roll back a controversial law that they feel unfairly targeted their members.
Iraqi parliament hit by walkout Leila Fadel 2010
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The moment of high drama came when members of the Iraqiya bloc - which, by a slim margin, won more seats in Iraq's 325-member parliament than any other bloc - walked out of the session to protest what they called duplicitous tactics by political rivals and broken promises to roll back a controversial law that they feel unfairly targeted their members.
Sunnis' walkout mars political talks in Iraq Leila Fadel 2010
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He did brief officials, including MacKay, about the problems of the NDS, which he described as duplicitous and open to manipulation by politically powerful people behind the scenes.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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Go hangout with Sarah and Dick and continue to live in duplicitous stupid bliss!
Think Progress » Pentagon pressured to cancel event hosting anti-Muslim evangelist speaker. 2010
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Roy Moore may be many things, but duplicitous is not one of them.
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Roy Moore may be many things, but duplicitous is not one of them.
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He says, "They conduct what I call duplicitous PR campaigns.
Best of the Blogs 2009
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"They conduct what I call duplicitous PR campaigns.
ModerateVoters.org 2009
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If you survey informed Americans, you will hear Pakistanis described as duplicitous, paranoid, self-pitying and generally infuriating.
NYT > Home Page By BILL KELLER 2011
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Matlock - Season 5, Episode 13 - "The Critic"
October 30, 2007