Duplicity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
  • n. An instance of deliberate deceptiveness; double-dealing.
  • n. The quality or state of being twofold or double.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Doubleness; a twofold state.
  • n. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
  • n.
  • n. The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
  • n. In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being double; doubleness.
  • n. Doubleness of heart or speech; the acting or speaking differently in relation to the same thing at different times or to different persons, with intention to deceive; the practice of deception by means of dissimulation or double-dealing.
  • n. In law, the pleading of two or more distinct matters together as if constituting but one.
  • n. In biology, the division of a part of the body of an organism, such as a limb or a digit, into two equivalent parts which may be regarded as equivalent to normal single members.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
  • n. acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
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