double-deal
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Around a 1914 map of Europe, three to seven players representing different countries try to deal and double-deal their way to control of the Continent, using fleets, armies and entangling alliances.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still it's our dooty, an' of course we don't double-deal, nor put back kyards on what's our plain dooty.'
From Wolfville by Alfred Henry Lewis
Not a bad legacy, considering George Downing is summarized by his biographer thus: “Liar, blackmailer, seducer and thief, this double-dealing shapeshifter would betray both friends and principles without a moment’s misgiving.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
When you’re spending money that’s not your own but that one day might be your inheritance, it sometimes feels like double-dealing, psychologically.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2025
But could the popularity of this show, based on deception and double-dealing, tell us something fundamental about the contemporary British psyche?
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
A devotee of prevarication and double-dealing, Molière would have made the most, in three acts, of stories like these.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
And Washington, playing his role in the agent’s double-dealing, supplied Hunter with such real tidbits as the actual strength of his army and the location of his supply dumps.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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