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duplicity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of duplicity

the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery

we were lucky not to be taken in by his duplicity

Synonyms of duplicity

artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness

Words Related to duplicity

equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication

chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wile

falsehood, falsity, fib, untruth

hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facedness

artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdness

treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness

covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness

oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness

Near Antonyms of duplicity

candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness

honesty, probity

dependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness

decency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness

Antonyms of duplicity

artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity

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