Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- False at heart; deceitful; treacherous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous.
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Examples
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I double-hearted herein; and now I swear by the Gods that thee shall I have for mine own, or no woman else.
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Latin in this, said Xenomanes; Chitterlings are still Chitterlings, always double-hearted and treacherous.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Latin in this, said Xenomanes; Chitterlings are still Chitterlings, always double-hearted and treacherous.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The next step taken was to assemble the ministers under a patriarchal tree, and, in the presence of the Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the Prince Imperial, to pronounce, in the names of the Kami of heaven and the Kami of earth -- the Tenshin and the Chigi -- a solemn imprecation on rulers who attempted double-hearted methods of government, and on vassals guilty of treachery in the service of their sovereign.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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For they who doubt towards God are the double-hearted, and shall receive nothing whatever of their desires.
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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Dubbed 'double-hearted oxygen tank', Park's exceptional work-rate and runs down the middle of the flanks will keep Argentina's defenders busy.
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There can be no false Latin in this, said Xenomanes; Chitterlings are still Chitterlings, always double-hearted and treacherous.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Men are more subtile, more double-hearted, they have a heart and
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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One sunny day not long ago I went to visit his double-hearted spirit in the cemetery.
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She clutched the scroll as a falcon does his prey, her eye lightened with indignation; and it was with the cry of the bird when in fury that she exclaimed, “Bloody-minded, double-hearted traitor! what wouldst thou have?
qms commented on the word double-hearted
By "dual" and "forked" suspicion's imparted;
And so it has been since language started.
We praise simplicity,
Despise duplicity,
And damn the man who's double-hearted.
May 19, 2014