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The synonyms of “Duplicitous” are: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, janus-faced, two-faced, dishonest, untruthful, lying, mendacious, insincere, false, disingenuous, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, cheating, underhand, crafty, cunning, sly, guileful, scheming, calculating, conniving, designing, hypocritical, perfidious, treacherous, machiavellian
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “duplicitous” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| ambidextrous | Able to use the right and left hands equally well. An ambidextrous tile gauge. |
| calculating | Acting in a scheming and ruthlessly determined way. He was a coolly calculating ruthless man. |
| cheating | Violating accepted standards or rules. |
| conniving | Acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end. A heartless and conniving woman. |
| crafty | Skilled at the making of decorative objects and other things by hand. A market full of crafty pots and interesting earrings. |
| cunning | Ingenious. A cunning baby. |
| deceitful | Intended to deceive – S.T.Coleridge. A deceitful politician. |
| designing | Acting in a calculating, deceitful way. A designing little minx. |
| dishonest | Deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive. He gave the editor a dishonest account of events. |
| disingenuous | Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does. An ambitious disingenuous philistine and hypocritical operator who exemplified the most disagreeable traits of his time. |
| double-dealing | Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another- Israel Zangwill. |
| double-faced | Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another- Israel Zangwill. |
| double-tongued | Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another- Israel Zangwill. |
| false | Used in names of plants animals and gems that superficially resemble the thing properly so called e g false oat. False pretenses. |
| guileful | Having or showing sly or cunning intelligence. A supremely guileful and deceptive politician. |
| hypocritical | Behaving in a way that suggests one has higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case. We don t go to church and we thought it would be hypocritical to have him christened. |
| insincere | Lacking sincerity. She flashed him an insincere smile. |
| janus-faced | Having or concerned with polarities or contrasts. |
| lying | Not telling the truth. He s a lying cheating snake in the grass. |
| machiavellian | Of or relating to Machiavelli or the principles of conduct he recommended. |
| mendacious | Not telling the truth; lying. A mendacious statement. |
| perfidious | Deceitful and untrustworthy. A perfidious lover. |
| scheming | Acting with a specific goal. A scheming wife. |
| sly | Showing in an insinuating way that one has some secret knowledge that may be harmful or embarrassing. A sly manipulative woman. |
| treacherous | Tending to betray especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans. Memory is particularly treacherous. |
| two-faced | Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another- Israel Zangwill. |
| underhand | Acting or done in a secret or dishonest way. An underhand grip. |
| unprincipled | Having little or no integrity. Freedom from coarse unprincipled calumny. |
| unscrupulous | Having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair. Unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants. |
| untrustworthy | Not able to be relied on as honest or truthful. An untrustworthy person. |
| untruthful | Saying or consisting of something that is false or incorrect. Companies issuing untruthful recruitment brochures. |
| betray | Expose (one’s country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy. The men who have betrayed British people s trust. |
| betrayal | An act of deliberate betrayal. The betrayal by the king by his daughter. |
| betrayer | One who reveals confidential information in return for money. |
| cheating | Not faithful to a spouse or lover. |
| chicanery | The use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one’s purpose. Storylines packed with political chicanery. |
| cunning | Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness. Baby will look too cunning for anything in that pink print. |
| deceit | A misleading falsehood. Hypocrisy and deceit were anathema to her. |
| deceive | Cause someone to believe an untruth. The area may seem to offer nothing of interest but don t be deceived. |
| deception | The action of deceiving someone. Obtaining property by deception. |
| fraud | Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. He was convicted of fraud. |
| fraudulence | Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. |
| guile | Sly or cunning intelligence. He used all his guile and guts to free himself from the muddle he was in. |
| hoax | Subject to a playful hoax or joke. The evidence had been planted as part of an elaborate hoax. |
| humbug | Communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive. She was always ready to help him provided he didn t humbug. |
| hypocrite | A hypocritical person. The story tells of respectable Ben who turns out to be a cheat and a hypocrite. |
| infidelity | Disbelief in a particular religion, especially Christianity. Her infidelity continued after her marriage. |
| perfidious | Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans. A perfidious lover. |
| perfidy | The state of being deceitful and untrustworthy. Hapsburg perfidy. |
| phony | Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance. |
| quisling | A traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country. He had the Quisling owner of the factory arrested. |
| rebel | Take part in a rebellion renounce a former allegiance. Respect did not prevent children from rebelling against their parents. |
| renegade | Become a renegade. Renegades and Deserters of Heaven who renounce their God for the Favour of Man. |
| skulduggery | Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way. A firm that investigates commercial skulduggery. |
| traitor | A person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause, or principle. He was a traitor to his own class. |
| traitorous | Relating to or characteristic of a traitor; treacherous. When his traitorous actions were discovered he was imprisoned. |
| treacherous | Tending to betray especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans. A treacherous Gestapo agent. |
| treasonable | (of an offence or offender) punishable as treason or as committing treason. There was no evidence of treasonable activity. |
| trickery | Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way. The dealer resorted to trickery. |
| turncoat | A person who deserts one party or cause in order to join an opposing one. They denounced him as a turncoat. |
| wile | Lure; entice. She didn t employ any feminine wiles to capture his attention. |
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