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double-crosser
noun
One who double-crosses.
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"I told this guy he was a handsome double-crosser.
But some people who once hailed Mr. Emil as a hero are suddenly calling him a cheat and double-crosser as he prepares to open his next big restaurant, a four-level bright-orange extravaganza with a Latin theme and a dance hall in Times Square, on Broadway at 49th Street.
"The Prophet — God's prayer and peace be upon him — said, 'On the Day of Judgment, every double-crosser will have a banner up his anus proportionate to his treachery.' " At one point, Fadl observes, "People hate America, and the Islamist movements feel their hatred and their impotence.
And no one of average emotions would fret about romance, we'd suppose, while angling to make a double-crosser pay up that "fifty grand" he'd overlooked.But this, of course, is a movie and a pretty low-grade one, at that in which sensations of fright and excitement are more diligently pursued than common sense.
I was called a double-crosser; people said I played double game.
That would be news to the myriad environmental organizations who supported Obama in 2008 and now see him as somewhat of a double-crosser.
Similar(53)
He double-crossed us".
We double-crossed him.
Asian allies double-crossed him.
Someone double-crosses him.
Who "double-crossed" whom?
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