duplicitous

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The actor could easily put his skills to use playing a duplicitous sociopath in a psychological drama, but as a comedy “Killing” is simply dead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Unlike the duplicitous characters it centers on, "Yellowjackets" introduced itself in its 2021 premiere as exactly what it is, a show about the worst.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025

He countersued last week, claiming she had made a "duplicitous attempt to destroy" him.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025

It’s at these very junctures that the archetypes of the unconscious can do their greatest mischief, shifting what at one moment is experienced as a benevolent parent into a duplicitous one.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2024

But such expectations were obviously too much for such a duplicitous character as Hamilton, who lacked “the Spirit to Maintain or the Magnanimity to retract” his own words.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis