duplicity

On Friday, Eritrea's information minister called the accusations levelled against Asmara as "duplicity in their most extreme forms".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

She has spoken of her interest in lying and duplicity, and has consistently, fruitfully, positioned her work on the border of fiction and nonfiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

But although the spin-off was a hit with viewers, the return to a civilian series allows more duplicity and arguably better gameplay, as the contestants' anonymity allows them to come in with more secrets.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

The truth hovers tantalizingly out of focus, and the characters’ duplicity becomes its adversary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

I seem to have persuaded Susan and Robert, who no longer look concerned for my mental stability, but Caleb narrows his eyes at me, the way he does when he suspects someone of duplicity.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

Through their eyes, this thoughtful and deeply humane novel exposes some of the contradictions and quiet duplicities of ordinary life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

He led us through the hallways of our insane asylums, the passions and duplicities our courtrooms, and into the blur of flying hair, free love, tie-dye and peace signs that marked our 1960s antiwar protests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018

Nguyen leaves us with a harrowing vision of the sprawling tragedies of wartime, and of the moral duplicities of which we are capable.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017

You could guess le Carré believes that the betrayals and duplicities throughout his 23 books are an integral part of human nature and likely to remain so.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2016

His disposition—not at all malleable, hard, and very little flexible—rejected the duplicities and the compromises of language to simulate concord when it did not exist.

From Dona Perfecta by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano