duplicitous
Example Sentences
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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.
Carl’s duplicitous behavior, meanwhile, leads Roy to think his brother is planning to make him the fall guy for their mutual misdeeds.
He also frequently bewails the exchange of his “real life” as a travel writer for his shadow-self as a spy, a predicament which he finds “fraught, annoying, perplexing, duplicitous.”
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
He countersued last week, claiming she had made a "duplicitous attempt to destroy" him.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
