DUPLICITOUS, DUPLICITY
ADJECTIVES
► DOUBLE-FACED practicing duplicity; hypocritical → 1565
► MACHIAVELLIAN practicing duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct; astute, cunning, intriguing → 1579
► MACHIAVELLIC practicing duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct; astute, cunning, intriguing → 1838
► MACHIAVELLINE practicing duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct; astute, cunning, intriguing → 1602 obs.
ADVERBS
► DOUBLY with duplicity; deceitfully → c1430
NOUNS
► DOUBLE FACE duplicity → 1828
► DOUBLE-HANDEDNESS duplicity of action → 1883
► DOUBLE HEART duplicity, double-dealing → 1382
► DOUBLENESS duplicity, deceitfulness, treachery → c1374
► DOUBLE TONGUE duplicity or deceitfulness of speech → c1386 obs.
► FAVEL a personification of duplicity or cunning → 1362 obs.
► HEART AND A HEART, A duplicity, insincerity → c825
► MALVERSE an act of duplicity, grave misconduct → 1703 Sc. obs.
PHRASES
► AS MANY FACES AS A CHURCHYARD CLOCK said of anyone seen as duplicitous or unreliable → 1925 sl.
VERBS
► BUTTER ONE’S BREAD ON BOTH SIDES to behave in a duplicitous and self-interested manner → 1768
► MACHIAVELIZE to practice duplicity and cunning in statecraft or in general conduct → 1611 obs.
► MACHIAVELLIANIZE to practice duplicity and cunning in statecraft or in general conduct → 1656 obs.
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