duplicity
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In the resulting civil war, he showed a characteristic combination of ruthlessness, duplicity and skill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
In itself, this duplicity won’t get in the way of Erika Kirk’s rise.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2025
For many onlookers, this seeming contradiction - of asking for aid with one hand while conducting military strikes with the other - chimes with Min Aung Hlaing's history of duplicity.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025
Finally, in August, Peters’ duplicity caught up with her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
When he looked past the immediate delays and Ulrich’s duplicity, he saw progress.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
The duplicities of love are sweet and touching, but I cannot play hide-and-seek with you any longer.
From The Eternal City by Sir Hall Caine
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