— Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918 Arch read it at breakfast the day it came out and again that night | |
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com, 3 June 2021 The new information was provided to the Times by Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers that detailed the US government's duplicity in its handling of the Vietnam War | " As you might expect, duplex is also the parent of another term for doubling it up, duplicate |
2021 These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'duplicity.
6And—key to the idea of duplicity—you're hiding that you in order to make people believe something that's not true | If you are being there are two yous: the one you're showing and the one you're hiding |
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2021 The site of his first news story as a foreign correspondent is Gorky Park, where the crash detritus is on display as evidence of American duplicity | This trick did not suggest duplicity or secretiveness… |
Duplicity comes from a Latin word meaning "double" or "twofold," and its original meaning in English has to do with a kind of deception in which you intentionally hide your true feelings or intentions behind false words or actions.
5— Washington Post, 16 Apr | And of course, the English duplex which can be a noun meaning "a two-family house" or an adjective meaning "double" comes from the Latin word of the same spelling |
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— Ben Westcott, CNN, 24 May 2021 Early Christians deemed face paint suspect, a mark of duplicity, and for centuries unadorned beauty was prized | ' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors |
Duplicity comes from a long line of "double" talk, starting with its Latin grandparent duplex, which means "double" or "twofold.