Synonyms for duplicity
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Noun
1. Double-dealing
double-dealing, deceit, deception, perfidy, trickery, dissimulation, hypocrisy, dishonesty, chicanery, insincerity, fraudulence, fraud, deceitfulness, artifice, guile, cunning, craft, doubleness, deceptiveness, duplicitousness, treachery, wile
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Definitions
- n. 1
Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
Related words
- Word family
- duplicitous dupe
Forms
- Plural
- duplicities → double-dealings, deceits, deceptions, perfidies…
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Duplicity is the habitual speaking or acting with intent to appear to mean what one does not.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- deception She was aware of his propensity towards deception.
- deceit He acquired a great fortune by using deceit and treachery.
By length
- 4 letters
- wile1
- 5 letters
- fraud1, craft1, guile1
- 6 letters
- deceit2
- 7 letters
- cunning2, perfidy3
- 8 letters
- trickery3, artifice3
- 9 letters
- deception3, hypocrisy4, treachery3, chicanery4
- 10 letters
- dishonesty4, doubleness
- 11 letters
- insincerity, fraudulence
- 13 letters
- dissimulation, deceitfulness, deceptiveness
- 15 letters
- duplicitousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (deceit2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- duplicité