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duplicity

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


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

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 11, 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

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

Her expression of duplicity was balanced by the fatuous confidence with which the Unicom regarded her.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

It was useless to recall her duplicities, her mendacities, her hypocrisies, her meannesses.

From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett




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