Example sentences for: duplicitous

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

  • The left dismisses Starr as a duplicitous, right-wing assassin bent on destroying a president who serves the people.

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

  • 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."

  • 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.


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