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dual personality

noun as in dissociative identity disorder

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He acknowledged that he found the company’s dual personality hard to comprehend, noting that most bad landlords keep a low profile.

The external pressures have been compounded by tensions stemming from the A.T.F.’s dual personality as a law enforcement and regulatory agency responsible for monitoring the nation’s 75,000 shops, pawn brokers, manufacturers and importers that buy and sell guns.

Agatha Christie featured characters with split consciousness or dual personality in her short-story collection The Hound of Death.

In an interview conducted at this time with an NCC student, Austin described what he called the “dual personality” of the black ruling class.

This was why, they thought, Asian-Americans were always described as having a “dual heritage” or “dual personality,” and thus as being part alien, even after having been here for generations.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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