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double-dealing

double-dealing \double-dealing\ adj. 1. given to deception especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; as, they accused each other of double-dealing behavior.

Syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, duplicitous, two-faced.

double-dealing

Double dealing \Dou"ble deal"ing\, double-dealing \dou"ble-deal"ing\ False or deceitful dealing; acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another. See Double dealing, under Dealing.
--Shak.

Syn: duplicity.

Wiktionary
double-dealing

a. (context of a person English) cheat, dishonest; treacherous. n. deceit or treachery

WordNet
double-dealing
  1. adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]

  2. n. acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another [syn: duplicity]

Usage examples of "double-dealing".

Carisophus, the disappointed courtier, who endeavours to creep back to favour by double-dealing with Aristippus and by practising the base treachery of a common informer, and who finally is kicked out of court and off the stage by Eubulus, the good counsellor.

Kadagidi themselves had their doubts about Murini, whose rise within his own clan had been checkered with double-dealing and a far greater affinity for the politics of the south coast than those of the Padi Valley.

He knew from Spiff that the Chief Wendle had a reputation for meanness and double-dealing.

Townies often accused troupers of double-dealing, but the townies were just as good at playing false.

Nevertheless, the double-dealing Themistocles was given credit by all the Greeks for a great naval victory.

Unfortunately, matter turned out to be double-dealing, two-faced, clouding the results of the investigation with the statements that it was this and it was that.

Seward, that double-dealing sneak, had sent word South that the seizure of the Federal fort would not be a casus belli, and that secession would be met with acquiescence.

Wartime Marseilles was such a bubbling stew of political double-dealing, financial corruption, racial and nationalist crisscrossings, refugee agonies and tragedies, and Mediterranean finagling dating back to Phoenician times, that compared to Gaither's daily grind, melodramas and spy yams paled.

Even seemingly bluff, blunt types like Thorisin and Onomagoulos proved as steeped in double-dealing as candied fruit in honey.

Not only are you incapable of double-dealing, not only are you incapable of thinking along double-dealing lines, you're not even capable of thinking of the consequences to the double-dealer who has overplayed his hand.

Firstly, we've been very gentle with Elspeth up until now insofar as exposing her to the kind of emotional blackmail and double-dealing perfidy that we both know is fairly commonplace at Court.

He had signed on to the Tsubasa to escape the endless gloom of Sha'angh'sei's narrow crooked streets, its double-dealing, lice-ridden merchants, its evil-eyed provocateurs, its sleazy arms dealers.

Mandras could not have known that this was because `This is my sector' was the standard ripost of his mentor when confronted with his double-dealings, his dishonesty, and his barbarity.

The King of Cups stands for a dishonest, double-dealing man: roguery, vice, scandal, you name it.