duplicity

After meeting Skalnik, Ms. Colloff thought the grifter would acknowledge his duplicity, before she came to believe that he simply saw her as his latest mark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

By 1820 even Adams had stopped firing off his illumination rounds and had adopted the Jeffersonian posture of benign duplicity, preferring to risk hypocrisy rather than the friendship.

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

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

Her caprices, faults, fancies, duplicities, wiles, caresses, impudence, conquests and delights were but straws out of which some great diplomatist would draw supplies for his cattle.

From The Son of Clemenceau by Alexandre Dumas fils