19 adjectives to describe duplicity

He there had a long dispute with Kirbie upon matters of fact, and, according to his own showing, was guilty while abroad, at least of a little duplicity.

The laundress' slip of the tongue, after denying that she understood, was evidence in itself of her deliberate duplicity.

Thank God, there is a day of sure judgment coming, when conventions and shields of usage will save no man from the due vengeance of truth upon falsehood, justice upon smooth and plausible duplicity!

Even among neighboring tribes they were known and dreaded for their cunning duplicity and savage ferocity.

with a calm and natural earnestness, which frightened Hilda, indicating as it did that he must be capable of astounding duplicities.

Thou hast, indeed, been a victim of their hellish duplicity, and well mayest thou say, the load was past bearing.

Talleyrand met him with his usual front of impenetrable duplicity.

On the many intrigues of that period I often conversed with M. Zola, who was particularly angered by the blind opposition of President Faure and the impudent duplicity of Prime Minister Dupuy.

Such was the outline of the plan; the minor details had not been arranged, when Cromwell, either informed by his spies, or prompted by his suspicions, complained to Ashburnham of the incurable duplicity of his master, who was [Footnote 1: Ludlow, i. 184.

There is something exceeding mere duplicity in this, Signor Grimaldi.

He saw that his secret designs had been penetrated, notwithstanding all his practised duplicity and specious candor; and he submitted with that species of desperate resignation, which becomes a habit, if not a virtue, in men long accustomed to be governed despotically.

These, with many minor details of profound duplicity, formed the principal features of a plan, which, if successful, would have reduced the Netherlands to the wretched state of colonial dependence by which Naples and Sicily were held in the tenure of Spain.

Don Camillo knew that there was no condition of life, however degraded or lost to the world, which had not its own particular opinions of the faith due to its fellows; and he had seen enough of the sinuous course of the oligarchy of Venice, to understand that it was quite possible its shameless and irresponsible duplicity might offend the principles of even an assassin.

Morality, in short, may dictate either selfsacrifice or selfassertion," "The conscious duplicity of the hypocrite," according to an outspoken adherent of Mr Bradley's, is "but the natural exaggeration of the unconscious duplicity which resides in the very heart of morality.

It is not given to man to penetrate the unfathomable duplicity of woman.

Morality, in short, may dictate either selfsacrifice or selfassertion," "The conscious duplicity of the hypocrite," according to an outspoken adherent of Mr Bradley's, is "but the natural exaggeration of the unconscious duplicity which resides in the very heart of morality.

But Tricoupi was a Greek, and evasion, diplomatic duplicity, and the usual devices of the weak brought to terms by the strong, are ingrained with the race.

To be coherent she must suspect, nay, accuse, her father of a dreadful duplicity.

As Campbell wrote in his report to the Virginian governor, no people had ever acted with more foolish duplicity.

19 adjectives to describe  duplicity