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noun

duplicity

a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

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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