'duplicity' definitions:
Definition of 'duplicity'
From: WordNet
noun
A fraudulent or duplicitous representation [syn: fraudulence, duplicity]
noun
Acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another [syn: duplicity, double-dealing]
Definition of 'duplicity'
From: GCIDE
- duplicity \du*plic"i*ty\, n.; pl. duplicities. [F. duplicit['e], L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See Duplex.]
- 1. Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) (a) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. --Blackstone. (b) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. --Wharton.
- Syn: Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception; falsehood. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'duplicity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambidexterity,
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- bad faith,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- conjugation,
- craft,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- dichotomy,
- dirty pool,
- dirty trick,
- dirty work,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- equivocality,
- faithlessness,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- foul play,
- furtiveness,
- guile,
- halving,
- hypocrisy,
- improbity,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- irony,
- Janus,
- low cunning,
- Machiavellianism,
- pairing,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- polarity,
- shiftiness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- surreptitiousness,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- underhandedness,
- wile