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duplicity
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Duplicity is the error committed when the charge (known as a count ) on an indictment describes two different offences. An indictment may contain more than one count, but each count must allege only one offence, so that the defendant (and the jury ) can ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Creatures have no duplicity , like man. ▪ I saw it most in our native duplicity . ▪ It was uncomfortable having to keep up a false front, and we regretted the distance our duplicity created. ▪ My life developed into a duplicity ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
duplicity \du*plic"i*ty\, n.; pl. duplicities . [F. duplicit['e], L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See Duplex .] Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic] Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French duplicite (13c.), from Late Latin duplicitatem (nominative duplicitas ) "doubleness," in Medieval Latin "ambiguity," noun of quality from duplex (genitive duplicis ) "twofold." The notion is of being "double" in one's conduct ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
Usage examples of duplicity.
Project Duplicity deals with the development of a chemical which causes mitosis.
This was the second time allusions had been made that connected Project Duplicity and Adam.
The connection was the fear of bad press keeping Duplicity from being funded?
And bad press would lessen the odds for Project Duplicity being funded.
I know the study was holding up Project Duplicity from going to Congress for funding.
Project Duplicity tie in with what happened to Captain Burke and his men?
Prevent Project Duplicity from being funded until next year-after the investigation is completed.
Or, it would like to produce it-provided Project Duplicity gets funded.
Dean Funes only sees duplicity of language, but seems to excuse it in the circumstances in which the Jesuits were placed.
I wanted to go down to a clean stream and wash away my duplicity, but I had been under the klieg lights a long time, and realized that I could do little to change opinions that were rigidly fixed from the preceding centuries.
Taylor put it, this stance therefore buries its own tracks, and then spends its time loudly and rhetorically denouncing all those who do not have the duplicity to likewise conceal their own position.
But go to the Old Catholics for top drawer snobbism and your real streak of madness, the Anglicans are just the bastard child, perfidious Albion and all the rest of it, you want a taste of the social caste system in all its cruelty and duplicity?
His enemies were ready enough to allow his military talents, but they wished to attribute the first success of his not very deep policy to a marvellous duplicity, apparently considered by them the more wicked as possessed by a parvenu emperor, and far removed, in a moral point of view, from the statecraft so allowable in an ancient monarchy.
And if the Roman eunuch had chosen forgery and duplicity to peel away the illusion, Sanga had no need of such artificial devices.
But the Appalachian Law School shootout raised groupthink to a whole new category of duplicity.