The phrase "as duplicitous in order to" is not correct and sounds awkward in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing deceitful behavior or actions taken for a specific purpose, but the phrasing is clumsy.
Example: "He acted as duplicitous in order to gain their trust, but his true intentions were far from honest."
Alternatives: "as deceitful to" or "as two-faced in order to".
And the leftists probably will never get over this passage from an author's note: "It has long been traditional amongst certain kinds of disconnected intellectuals to maintain that the Greek Communists were romantic heroes who were unjustly suppressed by the imperialist and duplicitous British in order to restore the monarchy against the will of the people".
Here, it's time to nudge a spoiler: the movie's big plot involves the suspicion, arising in London, that Marianne isn't the heroine she seems to be, and Max is forced to be duplicitous with her in order to uncover the truth.
This is the same duplicitous, gloating, insecure man who embellished his own mediocre war record in order to run for Congress, who adored obscene talk but was a poor hand with the fair sex and who affected cloth-coat austerity while dabbling all his life in slush funds.
In order to play the loutish Roy, who becomes increasingly crass and duplicitous as the movie goes on, Brolin sports what is possibly the worst haircut since Javier Bardem's pageboy in "No Country for Old Men".
In the frenetic and duplicitous city, Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) constantly reinvents his own identity (he is the psychoanalyst, the stockbroker, the hypnotist, the professional gambler, the crowd agitator) in order to manipulate the destiny of others.
(Waller has a duplicitous plan to use the Suicide Squad to cover up another plan). If only Davis were involved a bit more; if only we could scale down the inevitable FX-driven action finale involving slightly tiring supernatural forces, in order to beef up the dialogue and the chemistry.
The tragedy is, in order to save the country from break up and ruin, Politician's must now prove that they are not the duplicitous b******s people on both sides now think they are, and many will have to fall on their own swords in order to do so.
But the gentlemen in Langley are just as duplicitous as the young hotshots and better at playing politics.The CIA's biggest failure, though, is not so much its willingness to double- cross but its naivety.
My intention is not to picture them as duplicitous traitors who volunteered to be played in this fashion.
The mere presence of the Pakistani leader in Washington was sufficient to ruffle India, which continues to see the general as duplicitous, and failing to make a genuine effort to contain terrorism.
