How to Use duplicity in a Sentence

duplicity

noun

• He exposed the spy's duplicity.
• That is even worse — even worse than the pols’ duplicity.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Apr. 2023
• And none of this is to say that the Dems’ duplicity is the fault of the Democratic Party or white people.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 23 Jan. 2018
• Hughes told me that the scale of Phillips’s duplicity had surprised her.
  — Mike Spies, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
• The release of the audio of Mr. McCarthy’s comments was a rare moment where the duplicity was on display.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• Her silent duplicity toward Needy—in effect, her gaslighting of Needy—is a matter of life and death.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• The last, published in 2019, brought his stories of duplicity and deceit into the era of Brexit and Donald Trump.
  — Fox News, 14 Dec. 2020
• There should be a higher political price to pay for this kind of duplicity, but there rarely is.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2017
• Perhaps that’s a sad statement on the abiding nature of duplicity on Wall Street.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2018
• Jack, meanwhile, has been stewing about Charmaine's duplicity for the whole episode and angrily shows up at her house to talk.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• In his work, Wilde considered the question of whether such duplicity added to the sum of his personality or split it in two.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• Rodchenkov’s late-night switching of urine samples at the 2014 Sochi Games was just a snapshot of Russia’s duplicity.
  — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 19 July 2016
• The warlock’s pot stocked with hypocrisy calling the kettle brimming with duplicity black.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2022
• The attacks that were made and the duplicity and dishonesty of the FBI were totally evident.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 9 Feb. 2020
• The point is not to break relations with Pakistan but to demonstrate that its duplicity will no longer be rewarded.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 12 Aug. 2017
• But the scam lent itself to duplicity: No one was ever sure who was working with whom, who might be screwing someone else over, or who had started the whole thing.
  — Longreads, 5 Mar. 2024
• The deceptions and symmetries are standard, but this is the kind of movie that rises or falls on whether the actors can carry the duplicity — and the innocence — aloft.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 July 2022
• For much of the war, now in its 18th year, Afghans have despaired that duplicity by both sides has eroded Pashtunwali and its notions of honor and respect.
  — David Zucchino, New York Times, 10 July 2019
• The prospect of duplicity from one of the characters briefly hangs in the air, before being neatly resolved before the closing credits.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2023
• The war has revealed the duplicity of the great powers in dealing with identical things in two different countries.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2024
• Some accused Liu of duplicity when dealing with fans in China.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• What emerges from filings, public records and interviews are the contours of a life layered with duplicity and mystery.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• But the real job of political satire is to expose the hypocrisy, irony and duplicity of our political class.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2024
• Yet the duplicity and paranoia of the Soviet government haunted the ARA’s operation to the very end.
  — The Economist, 9 Nov. 2019
• There is a deep dichotomy, a deep duplicity in the human condition.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 16 June 2019
• But for Wisner and his agency, duplicity and disinformation weren’t just tools to be used abroad.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2021
• That duplicity burdens all of their descendants today: There is not enough water for both.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
• White duplicity and betrayal drive the plot of each of these films, and none of them features a savior who might allow a white audience to preserve their innocence.
  — Jonathan W. Gray, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
• When Bendiksen got to Perpignan, his duplicity weighed on him.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 6 Oct. 2021
• Policymakers believed that certificates of need would control health care costs for patients by reducing waste and duplicity.
  — Sofia Hamilton and Thomas Kimbrell, STAT, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024