How to Use duplicitous in a Sentence

duplicitous

adjective

• 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
• Most of his Greek colleagues were duplicitous and covertly aligned with the troika or Greek oligarchs.
  — Martin Sandbu, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Boys will be boys, in other words, and women duplicitous.
  — Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Vergennes has seen it all, and when Franklin settles with the British in a duplicitous last diplomatic pirouette, he is irked but not unduly.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Records dating back over a millennium show that measles has had a duplicitous nature since humans began documenting it.
  — History / Elena Conis, TIME, 29 May 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024