duplicity

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
2. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being double or twofold.

Synonyms

double-dealing

guile

deceit

falseness

treachery

hypocrisy

obliquity

equivocation

insincerity

fraud

fraudulence

double

double-dealer

dualism

duality

equivocalness

facade

falsity

indirection

knavery

obliqueness

parallelism

perfidy

timeserver

turncoat

unfairness

double-tongued

fence-sitter

duplexity

ambiguity

infedelity

ambiguousness

cheating

craft

crookedness

cunning

deception

deviousness

dishonesty

disingenuousness

dissimulation

Translations

duplicité

duplicidad

duplicidade

doppiezza

Doppelspiel

Doppelzüngigkeit

düzenbazlık

fausseté

duplicità

duplicitas

ikiyüzlülük

doblez

hile

διπροσωπία

duplicitat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/duˈplɪ.sɪ.ti/

Etymology

From Latin duplicare (double). Equivalent to duplex + -ity.