Example sentences for: duplicitous

How can you use “duplicitous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If you turn round and do it to me, it probably means you are being duplicitous in some way--switching allegiance; reversing an opinion.

  • An article calls new Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller "pathologically duplicitous," "craven," and phenomenally corrupt.

  • In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post said that Habibie, after repeatedly promising to keep the peace, was either being duplicitous or had lost control of his senior military leaders, who were vehemently opposed to independence for East Timor.

  • Slavin's uncluttered, room-temperature prose renders the monstrous familiar, even beautiful" (Charles Taylor, the New York Times Book Review ). Others note that "[i]t seems to be a common, almost universal, tactic in American literature to depict the suburbs as a duplicitous world where a safe, materialistic, blandly cheerful surface conceals a dark secret life" and that the stories' predictable outlandishness verges on becoming "precious" (Judy Budnitz, the Village Voice ). Or as Kirkus Reviews writes, "Slavin has a warped sense of humor and enjoys rubbing the reader's nose in it."

  • Commentators also debated whether the mole's exposure proved Russia was still a duplicitous enemy.


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