duplicitous

Example Sentences

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He also frequently bewails the exchange of his “real life” as a travel writer for his shadow-self as a spy, a predicament which he finds “fraught, annoying, perplexing, duplicitous.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Mary does get her heart bruised again by a duplicitous Yank, but this time she doesn’t mope about it.

From Salon

“It’s really fun to dial up the maliciousness and the duplicitous nature of a woman,” Cooke adds.

From Los Angeles Times

Unlike the duplicitous characters it centers on, "Yellowjackets" introduced itself in its 2021 premiere as exactly what it is, a show about the worst.

From Salon

He countersued last week, claiming she had made a "duplicitous attempt to destroy" him.

From BBC