double-dealing

This sort of double-dealing is what happens when a “leader” feels beholden to anti-government zealots to keep the job he coveted for so long.

"It is the height of the double-dealing and impudence peculiar to the U.S. to provoke first and then talk about the so-called 'responsible control over divergence of opinion,'" the commentary said.

His flamboyant personality struck a chord with the Italian electorate, which continued to back him despite allegations of corruption and double-dealing.

A devotee of prevarication and double-dealing, Molière would have made the most, in three acts, of stories like these.

Like many issues that seem at first to be solely about race relations, these double-dealing policies are evidence of our atrophying democratic culture.