Words similar to duplicity
Example sentences for: duplicity
How can you use “duplicity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Indeed, Chaplin never signals the man's duplicity, and one wonders if his Townsend has even fully admitted to himself that his motives are impure.
Synonyms for truth telling are formal and dull: candor , honesty , veridity . Those for conveying falsehoods are colorful and ebullient: equivocation , mythomania , casuistry , quackery , buncombe , cajolery , duplicity , perjury , bamboozlement , pettifoggery , sugarcoating , a crock , a con job , twaddle .
Gingrich lashed out against "the level of arrogance and duplicity by this White House.
Calling Armey "Newt Gingrich's best insurance policy," she accused him of duplicity in defending Gingrich when simply everyone knows, dahling, that the GOP needs new leadership.
But in an evocative (if self-serving) piece in The New Yorker , Raphael notes that his original script was ultimately "blanched of all the duplicity that made it alive" for him, that at every turn Kubrick took out details of personality in pursuit of an underlying archetype.