as in deception
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
we were lucky not to be taken in by his duplicity
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Recent Examples of duplicity
The story of a secret agent confronted with duplicity and bureaucracy from his own side while investigating a Soviet kidnap ring, it was published in 1962 and went on to sell millions of copies.
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Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity.
—Tina Nguyen, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
Premiering in 2004, Project Runway was instrumental in ushering in a new style of reality competition based on skill rather than duplicity and cynicism.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
Despite his layered duplicity, Jonathan understands and defines himself by courting risk.
—Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
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Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity.
—Tina Nguyen, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
Premiering in 2004, Project Runway was instrumental in ushering in a new style of reality competition based on skill rather than duplicity and cynicism.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
Despite his layered duplicity, Jonathan understands and defines himself by courting risk.
—Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for duplicity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicity
Noun
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But in a further deception orchestrated by the Devil, the king’s mother is ordered to kill the queen and her child.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Red-team against deliberate deception, not just natural variability.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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The shows tackle stories about murder, deceit, grief, familial estrangement, presidential assassinations, and complex mental health diagnoses — and all have found captive audiences on the streamer over the last year.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
28 May 2026
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In each new place, Charlie pretends to be Layla, hoping to ensnare an unsuspecting Stanley into his web of deceit.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
28 May 2026
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Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Beyond the deceptiveness of the narrow material view, spiritual light and hope are always present to be found and felt.—
Sue Brightman,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Jan. 2025
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Americans for Prosperity sponsored a striking display in the DECC’s Pioneer Hall, demonstrating the scale of the state’s fraud losses with faux $100 bills stacked in volumes that would total $2 billion.—
Jay Gabler,
Twin Cities,
30 May 2026
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The authors then matched high-fraud ZIP codes to areas with fast-appreciating home prices.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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Antisocial personality includes a persistent pattern of traits such as callousness, lack of concern, deceitfulness, and irresponsibility, Ryan said.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Apr. 2026
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Perfidy — from the French perfidie via the Latin perfidia — means deceitfulness, treachery or a breach of faith or promise.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
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Some companies initially prohibited candidates from using AI during tests to prevent cheating.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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In-person classes can still maintain some degree of rigor, and cheating can be reduced to zero as long as all assignments are done in the classroom.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
26 May 2026
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For everyone else, including this freelance journalist without an expense account, the approach is more like a military-level obstacle course designed to test your cunning and will.—
Jada Yuan,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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The quality that drew Kurosawa to Yonezawa’s novel in the first place is not valor or cunning but something considerably less heroic.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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“Duplicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicity. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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