How to Use duplicity in a Sentence

duplicity

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  • He exposed the spy's duplicity.
  • That is even worse — even worse than the pols’ duplicity.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Apr. 2023
  • And none of this is to say that the Dems’ duplicity is the fault of the Democratic Party or white people.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Hughes told me that the scale of Phillips’s duplicity had surprised her.
    — Mike Spies, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
  • The release of the audio of Mr. McCarthy’s comments was a rare moment where the duplicity was on display.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Her silent duplicity toward Needy—in effect, her gaslighting of Needy—is a matter of life and death.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The last, published in 2019, brought his stories of duplicity and deceit into the era of Brexit and Donald Trump.
    — Fox News, 14 Dec. 2020
  • There should be a higher political price to pay for this kind of duplicity, but there rarely is.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Perhaps that’s a sad statement on the abiding nature of duplicity on Wall Street.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2018
  • Jack, meanwhile, has been stewing about Charmaine's duplicity for the whole episode and angrily shows up at her house to talk.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In his work, Wilde considered the question of whether such duplicity added to the sum of his personality or split it in two.
    — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Rodchenkov’s late-night switching of urine samples at the 2014 Sochi Games was just a snapshot of Russia’s duplicity.
    — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 19 July 2016
  • The warlock’s pot stocked with hypocrisy calling the kettle brimming with duplicity black.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2022
  • The attacks that were made and the duplicity and dishonesty of the FBI were totally evident.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 9 Feb. 2020
  • The point is not to break relations with Pakistan but to demonstrate that its duplicity will no longer be rewarded.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 12 Aug. 2017
  • But the scam lent itself to duplicity: No one was ever sure who was working with whom, who might be screwing someone else over, or who had started the whole thing.
    — Longreads, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The deceptions and symmetries are standard, but this is the kind of movie that rises or falls on whether the actors can carry the duplicity — and the innocence — aloft.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 July 2022
  • For much of the war, now in its 18th year, Afghans have despaired that duplicity by both sides has eroded Pashtunwali and its notions of honor and respect.
    — David Zucchino, New York Times, 10 July 2019
  • The prospect of duplicity from one of the characters briefly hangs in the air, before being neatly resolved before the closing credits.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Some accused Liu of duplicity when dealing with fans in China.
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • What emerges from filings, public records and interviews are the contours of a life layered with duplicity and mystery.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But the real job of political satire is to expose the hypocrisy, irony and duplicity of our political class.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Yet the duplicity and paranoia of the Soviet government haunted the ARA’s operation to the very end.
    — The Economist, 9 Nov. 2019
  • There is a deep dichotomy, a deep duplicity in the human condition.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 16 June 2019
  • But for Wisner and his agency, duplicity and disinformation weren’t just tools to be used abroad.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2021
  • That duplicity burdens all of their descendants today: There is not enough water for both.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
  • White duplicity and betrayal drive the plot of each of these films, and none of them features a savior who might allow a white audience to preserve their innocence.
    — Jonathan W. Gray, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
  • When Bendiksen got to Perpignan, his duplicity weighed on him.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Early Christians deemed face paint suspect, a mark of duplicity, and for centuries unadorned beauty was prized.
    — New York Times, 7 May 2021
  • For Afghans disenchanted by the corruption and duplicity of their politicians, Raziq seemed authentic.
    — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024

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