Sentence examples for double-dealer from inspiring English sources
noun
One who double deals. A cheat or crook.
He is a double-dealer for whom writing is 'a crooked business'.
His major plays were The Old Bachelour (1693), The Double-Dealer (1693), Love for Love (1695), and The Way of the World (1700).
His next play, The Double-Dealer, played in November or December at Drury Lane but did not meet with the same applause (it later became the more critically admired work, however).
He is widely seen as villain-in-chief, the stubborn myope who flung Ehud Barak's over-generous offer back in his face, the wily double-dealer who refuses to rein in his gunmen.
Undertaken from 1979 to 1983, the much-litigated and not always conclusively documented story of its construction has much to divert both those who would see Trump as a visionary deal-maker or as a mendacious double-dealer.
Faulkner first met Anderson in 1925 when the two worked together in New Orleans on the literary magazine The Double-Dealer. Lee Caplin, the executor of Faulkner's literary estate and a longtime family friend who once shared a studio with Estelle Faulkner, said the papers were found last year.
He's straightforward, no double dealer".
One of those who excelled as a double dealer was Yury Andropov, then the Soviet ambassador in Budapest.
The second half of the program moved to England, again with theatrical music, mostly strings of dances, from Purcell's "Double Dealer" and Handel's "Rodrigo".
As Bernard Levin noted in 1977 when she was playing Lady Macbeth and Lady Plyant in Congreve's The Double Dealer at the National: "She is tiny.
Next Best Deceptive (8.00 Wolverhampton) One To Watch Double Dealer (Mahmood al-Zarooni) was tanking when meeting traffic at Newmarket last Saturday and roared home for third when breaking free.
