In a sentence
Six example sentences with duplicity, each labelled with its topic.
The board discovered his duplicity when the same warehouse turned up as collateral in two separate loan files.
Business
The play turns on the steward's duplicity: he swears loyalty at dinner and sells the estate's secrets by morning.
Literature
Voters punished the minister's duplicity after letters showed he had promised the same seat to two different candidates.
Politics
The trader's duplicity came to light when two sets of books were found, one for the auditors and one for himself.
Finance
The con artist's duplicity is the whole film, and the audience is fooled along with his victims until the last scene.
Movies
The envoy's duplicity was exposed when his letters to both kings were captured in the same saddlebag.
History
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