duplicity

Example Sentences

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Duplicity ensued on the next Terrapins drive, as Maryland tried another field goal from the same spot after a stalled drive, but Petrino pushed that 32-yard kick wide right.

From Washington Times • Sep. 18, 2021

Duplicity and manipulation are rewarded with money and positions of prominence, and no one actually believes the words coming out of their own mouths.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2018

Duplicity For Everyone: You can fool all of the people some of the time, so let’s go ahead and do that.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2017

Vital signs were reportedly flagging two years ago, when the industry gasped at dismal returns for Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol, Bruce Willis's Surrogates, Adam Sandler's Funny People and Julia Roberts's Duplicity.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2011

This time Duplicity, in the garb of Peace—Evil arrayed in the robes of Amity—have triumphed, and Justice, with a mournful smile and a pitying tear, puts aside her sword and scale.

From Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return May 6 to October 3, 1858 by Seville, William P.