duplicitously
- adverb
- /djuːˈplɪsɪtəsli/
:
de manera engañosa
- To be fair, I think the Federalists looked at liberal thought in the '80s as hypocritical, using power duplicitously, and now it's reversed.
Examples
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Vollbart welcomed the chilly weather; he was glad football season was over, that the semester would soon come to a close, and he would never have to look at the duplicitously fresh-faced undergraduates in his ethics class again.
Fiction book (2001) -
The irony is that even those who admitted to helping by their own hands, duplicitously or not,
Blog text (2) -
You follow exactly in their footsteps, with your narrow, ideologically tendentious definition of the word "democracy": you, like them, are a liar, and your purpose, like theirs, is not to explore the truth, but rather to duplicitously bend it in a narrow, politically self-serving way.
Blog text (7) -
He spoke duplicitously, pretending to care about the project while secretly undermining it.
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She acted duplicitously when she said she supported her friend's decision, but later criticized it behind her back.
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The politician duplicitously promised to lower taxes while secretly planning increases elsewhere.
Synonyms
16
5.7
In a way that makes something seem different from what it really is
4
3.5
In a way that tries to trick or cheat other people
3
7.4
In a way that pretends to have good morals you do not have
2
8.4
In a dishonest way, by pretending not to know something
1
6.3
In a way that tries to trick someone
1
7.7
In a way that seems true but is not
1
5.9
In a way that is not true to make other people believe something false
In a dishonest way that betrays trust
In a way that makes people believe something that is not true
In a secret, dishonest way to get an unfair advantage
In a way that shows someone is dishonest or evasive
Antonyms
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
duplicitously = duplicitous (transparent) = duplicit + ly
The adverb is a regular formation from the adjective 'duplicitous' using the productive suffix '-ly', so the meaning 'in a duplicitous way' is directly derived.
Etymology
The word duplicitously comes from the Latin root duplex meaning 'double', and you can see the same idea in duplicate ('to make a copy' or 'double'). It is like someone with 'two faces' who shows one side but hides the other, so to act duplicitously is to be dishonest and two-faced.