duplicity

Despite his layered duplicity, Jonathan understands and defines himself by courting risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026

But although the spin-off was a hit with viewers, the return to a civilian series allows more duplicity and arguably better gameplay, as the contestants' anonymity allows them to come in with more secrets.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

The truth hovers tantalizingly out of focus, and the characters’ duplicity becomes its adversary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

In itself, this duplicity won’t get in the way of Erika Kirk’s rise.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2025

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

These transformations of character, these curious duplicities, and now this lie.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell