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duplicity

[doo-plis-i-tee, dyoo-] / duˈplɪs ɪ ti, dju- /


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She has spoken of her interest in lying and duplicity, and has consistently, fruitfully, positioned her work on the border of fiction and nonfiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

In the resulting civil war, he showed a characteristic combination of ruthlessness, duplicity and skill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

"It's those images and posts that seem to toe the line between reality and duplicity that capture our attention and encourage us to share," Ms Duffy said.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

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

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2025

As she saw it, Jefferson’s denials only offered further evidence of his duplicity.

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

But with the memory of a myriad subtle duplicities in her brain, she had never seen anything which could have approached a thing like that.

From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett




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