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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
duplicity \du*plic"i*ty\, noun; pl. {duplicities}. [F. duplicit['e], L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See {Duplex}.]
1. Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic]
Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. --I. Watts.
2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution. --Burke.
3. (Law) (a) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. --Blackstone. (b) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. --Wharton.
Syn: Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception; falsehood.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
duplicity
noun
1: a fraudulent or duplicitous representation [syn: {fraudulence}]
2: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another [syn: {double-dealing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "duplicity": Janus, Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, ambiguity, ambivalence, artfulness, artifice, bad faith, biformity, bifurcation, conjugation, craft, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, dichotomy, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, equivocality, faithlessness, falseheartedness, falseness, foul play, furtiveness, guile, halving, hypocrisy, improbity, indirection, insidiousness, irony, low cunning, pairing, perfidiousness, perfidy, polarity, shiftiness, sneak attack, sneakiness, surreptitiousness, treacherousness, treachery, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, underhandedness, wile
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