How to Use duplicitous in a Sentence

duplicitous

adjective

• But there’s a deeper charge to living with this duplicitous point of view.
  — Erika Stalder, refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• Feathers might not even be the only death decoys that duplicitous birds toss around.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
• The effort to obtain the records of Boys' mother was even more duplicitous, the state alleged.
  — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• The cultural effects of having a duplicitous leader at the helm are far-reaching.
  — Stephanie Hartman, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• Johnson, who was duplicitous and forceful, found a way through.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
• Of course, the duplicitous world of the Checquy isn’t exactly real life.
  — Emily Zemler, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
• Waller has a duplicitous plan to use the Suicide Squad to cover up another plan.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• But comics are a more duplicitous and all-devouring game than baseball.
  — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
• From such duplicitous beginnings, the idea of gimmickry soon spread.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• On the contrary, double-crosses abound, as both sides in the brewing gangland war attempt to gain the upper hand through duplicitous means.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• Along the way, some people who dealt with her found her duplicitous and deceitful, while others found her a heroic survivor.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2020
• The fact that he’s proven to be duplicitous and evasive would certainly give me pause about whether this is a connection worth pursuing further.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2022
• Her duplicitous plan went awry when Lederer asked for the recipe and continued to follow up in later months trying to acquire it.
  — Amy Dewall Dadmun, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2018
• After these duplicitous peace talks, Saru hails the captain in his ready room and reports Cornwell's fate.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2017
• Anyone claiming to value integrity is scoffed at as duplicitous or naïve.
  — Barbara McQuade, Time, 12 June 2023
• While both brothers are duplicitous, Chuck’s actions feel like more of a betrayal.
  — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 12 June 2017
• For Brexit to succeed we must get rid of this awful, duplicitous PM.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 9 July 2018
• What follows is a dramatic encounter, a display of the swindler’s most duplicitous impulses.
  — Miles Harvey, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• That level of duplicitous evil is scarier than any horror movie or demon story could every inspire.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 31 July 2017
• That said, duplicitous agents might undersell the severity of an issue, and honest ones can miscalculate the cost.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2021
• Crudup stars as Jack Billings, who leads a duplicitous operation selling timeshares on the moon.
  — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
• In other words, was Gatsby written to be a man who led a lost battalion, or was he written as being duplicitous in making that kind of claim?
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• Whereas Penelope is complex, and smart, and funny and daring, and duplicitous.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• To many of his new colleagues, Meadows quickly came across as duplicitous and untrustworthy.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
• People have reported duplicitous postings for cheap hard disk drives and USB flash drives.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2023
• Blair thinks Vanessa is being duplicitous in helping Serena, but none of them do anything about it.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2018
• Ivy does a lot of duplicitous things yet isn’t entirely unsympathetic.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• How will Pipsy, a purebred spaniel lured here by her duplicitous feline girlfriend, survive?
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• What is to prevent parents from spying on their duplicitous teenagers by tracking their movements and conversations through the sensitive acoustic fibers planted in their hoodies?
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• Still, Roiphe’s approach comes off as duplicitous, even cowardly.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 12 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2024