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It's a strategy adopted by Denise van Outen, who tottered into Walford as duplicitous wheeler-dealering widow Karin.
Lamb, who promotes himself as a champion for mental health awareness, was responding to tweets from the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk & Suffolk which called him duplicitous and said it had encountered many people who were adversely affected by cuts to mental health services under the Liberal-Conservative coalition.
It's duplicitous for them to claim that they are getting rid of it: all they are doing is dropping the name".
Ponting certainly has copped his share of bouncers on this tour – in these pages and others – and was even accused by one commentator in the wake of the needlessly rancorous first Test in Cardiff of being "duplicitous " and possessing not "a shred of moral authority".
Grass of Parnassus is a duplicitous plant, and not just because it is not a grass at all.
However, during her 12-year film career, the critics and public never saw her as a threat to the two other noirish dames she most resembled, Lauren Bacall and Veronica Lake, although they rarely played duplicitous dames, as Scott did.
"When you actually look at what we say, other than calling him duplicitous , which I would have thought would be a compliment to most politicians, I think we're actually pretty polite.
The dockers' strike in July 1984 (Revealed: Thatcher's plan to use army during miners' strike, 3 January) was indeed one of the crucial episodes in the coal dispute of 1984-5, not least in revealing the duplicitous ways in which the Thatcher governments defeated their opponents in the labour movement.
She wears it well, the duplicitous psycho.
She witnessed rows with his wife, his duplicitous nature and occasionally violent binges and even took his new girlfriend, Gina, to a safe house to encourage a reunion between him and Alex: the front-page story her boss wanted.This book is built on celebrity gossip but Ms Walden can be reflective too, questioning whether the press was right to infiltrate his life.
When police recently charged Chuwit Kamolvisit, the owner of six massage parlours, with running ill-disguised brothels, he angrily revealed the millions of dollars in bribes he had been paying to Bangkok's duplicitous officers to avoid just such an occurrence.
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The primary grammatical function of "duplicitous" is as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe someone or something characterized by deception or double-dealing. Ludwig AI's analysis confirms its correct usage in numerous contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
