duplicity

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

In itself, this duplicity won’t get in the way of Erika Kirk’s rise.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2025

But his duplicity has been abundantly exposed during this trial, and he has clearly lost the right to be believed by his daughter.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2024

Finally, in August, Peters’ duplicity caught up with her.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

Through some complex combination of duplicity and disposition, Jefferson had come to embody the will to believe.

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