Dictionary Definition
duplicity
Noun
1 a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
[syn: fraudulence]
2 acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to
entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of
another [syn: double-dealing]
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Translations
- Greek: διπροσωπία
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Extensive Definition
Duplicity means deceitfulness. It may also refer
to:
- Duplicity (law), when the charge on an indictment describes two different offences
- Duplicity (software), provides easy encrypted versioned remote backup of files
- "Duplicity" (Smallville episode), an episode of Smallville
- Duplicity (film), a 2009 thriller starring Clive Owen and Julia Roberts
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Janus,
Machiavellianism,
ambidexterity,
ambiguity, ambivalence, artfulness, artifice, bad faith, biformity, bifurcation, conjugation, craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, dichotomy, dirty pool, dirty
trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation,
double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of
heart, doublethink,
doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, equivocality, faithlessness, falseheartedness,
falseness, foul play,
furtiveness,
guile, halving, hypocrisy, improbity, indirection, insidiousness, irony, low cunning, pairing, perfidiousness, perfidy, polarity, shiftiness, sneak attack,
sneakiness, surreptitiousness,
treacherousness,
treachery, twinning, two-facedness,
twoness, underhandedness,
wile