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Definition of Duplicity

Duplicity

  1. Doubleness; a twofold state.
  2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
  3. The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
  4. In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.

Duplicity Quotations

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Blaise Pascal

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
Honore de Balzac

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
Claud Cockburn
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Duplicity Translations

duplicity in Spanish is duplicidad
duplicity in Swedish is dubbelhet, dubbelspel

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