Word Meanings - DUPLICITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Doubleness; a twofold state. Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts. 2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists

Additional info about word: DUPLICITY

1. Doubleness; a twofold state. Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts. 2. 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. Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution. Burke. The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. Blackstone. In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. Wharton. Syn. -- Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception; falsehood.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DUPLICITY)

• Art
• Science
• literature
• aptitude
• readiness
• adroitness
• skill
• dexterity
• cunning
• deceit
• duplicity
• tactics
• profession
• artifice
• management
• trade
• business
• calling
• Craft
• guile
• stratagem
• manoeuvre
• wiliness
• trickery
• chicanery
• intrigue
• underhandedness
• dodge
• Deceit
• Cheat
• imposition
• trick
• fraud
• deception
• double dealing
• delusion
• circumvention
• bewilderment
• treachery
• sham
• insidiousness
• indirection
• Intrigue
• Cabal
• plot
• conspiracy
• machination
• design
• manoeuvres
• love affair
• amour
• ruse
• Mendacity
• Falsehood
• lying
• untruthfulness
• prevarication

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DUPLICITY)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to DUPLICITY)

• AMOUR PROPRE
  Self-love; self-esteem.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• LYRE BIRD
  Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird , inhabiting New South Wales,
• LYTHE
  The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet.
• LYSIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• LYTHONTHRIPTIC; LYTHONTRIPTIC
  See LITHONTRIPTIC
• LYCOPODE
  See LYCOPODIUM
• LYONNAISE
  Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.
• LYMPH
  An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• LIVINGLY
  In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• LAUGHINGLY
  With laughter or merriment.
• SCOLYTID
  Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• POLYCHROITE
  The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids; -- called also crocin, and safranin.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• WHIP-TOM-KELLY
  A vireo native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SUNDRILY
  In sundry ways; variously.
• THIRSTILY
  In a thirsty manner.
• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• SPANGLY
  Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• THERMALLY
  In a thermal manner.
• IMPISHLY
  In the manner of an imp.