How to Use duplicitous in a Sentence

duplicitous

adjective
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  • The effort to obtain the records of Boys' mother was even more duplicitous, the state alleged.
    — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • But there’s a deeper charge to living with this duplicitous point of view.
    — Erika Stalder, refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Of course, the duplicitous world of the Checquy isn’t exactly real life.
    — Emily Zemler, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • DiCaprio costars as her duplicitous husband Ernest, who has a hand in their deaths.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The country has a long history of ties to the Taliban, and its relations with the U.S. during the war in Afghanistan were seen as duplicitous at best.
    — NBC News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Waller has a duplicitous plan to use the Suicide Squad to cover up another plan.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Feathers might not even be the only death decoys that duplicitous birds toss around.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
  • After these duplicitous peace talks, Saru hails the captain in his ready room and reports Cornwell's fate.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2017
  • For Brexit to succeed we must get rid of this awful, duplicitous PM.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 9 July 2018
  • On the contrary, double-crosses abound, as both sides in the brewing gangland war attempt to gain the upper hand through duplicitous means.
    — Nick Schager, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Born as the upscale derivative of the classless Volkswagen Golf, the Audi A3 has led a bit of a duplicitous life.
    — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Johnson, who was duplicitous and forceful, found a way through.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The cultural effects of having a duplicitous leader at the helm are far-reaching.
    — Stephanie Hartman, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • But comics are a more duplicitous and all-devouring game than baseball.
    — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The wife of railroad baron Leland Stanford, Jane was rich, duplicitous and convinced that God was whispering in her ear.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • Crudup stars as Jack Billings, who leads a duplicitous operation selling timeshares on the moon.
    — Antonio Ferme, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Along the way, some people who dealt with her found her duplicitous and deceitful, while others found her a heroic survivor.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2020
  • Her duplicitous plan went awry when Lederer asked for the recipe and continued to follow up in later months trying to acquire it.
    — Amy Dewall Dadmun, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2018
  • While both brothers are duplicitous, Chuck’s actions feel like more of a betrayal.
    — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 12 June 2017
  • People have reported duplicitous postings for cheap hard disk drives and USB flash drives.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2023
  • In other words, was Gatsby written to be a man who led a lost battalion, or was he written as being duplicitous in making that kind of claim?
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The fact that he’s proven to be duplicitous and evasive would certainly give me pause about whether this is a connection worth pursuing further.
    — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2022
  • From such duplicitous beginnings, the idea of gimmickry soon spread.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Whereas Penelope is complex, and smart, and funny and daring, and duplicitous.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • And then there's Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), a duplicitous reporter who cozies up to the main character under false pretenses — and falls for his small-town charms.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 June 2022
  • To Raffi, though, Gessen’s Russian rages seem duplicitous.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 June 2022
  • Blair thinks Vanessa is being duplicitous in helping Serena, but none of them do anything about it.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Grace starred as the duplicitous serial killer Edwin in the film from director Nimród Antal.
    — Jolie Lash, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Hill stages a few too many climactic gunfights, yet every one is a moral test, whether in a duplicitous sheriff’s apology, or Borlund and Cribbens’s final face-to-face.
    — Armond White, National Review, 30 Dec. 2022
  • However, once the timeline flashes forward to the present day, and the point of view changes to the brothers’, the story evolves into something profound as the motivations behind the pair’s duplicitous acts are revealed.
    — Laura Jane Standley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022

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