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duplicity - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'duplicity' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Duplicity [ n.]
- Doubleness; a twofold state.
- Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
- The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
- In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.