Sentence examples for duplicitous to from inspiring English sources
It would be equally duplicitous to imply that such gay bishops would be an innovation.
Officials said it was either naïve or duplicitous to pretend that politicians would opt for tax increases in the middle of a presidential election year.
Posters and advertisements shamed men into enlisting, threatening their masculinity and citizenship, and told women that any man who was "unfaithful" to his country would be just as duplicitous to his girl.
(In contrast, if there is a point the film could be criticized on, it is the handling of Ken, who veers from petty and duplicitous to abject and effeminate.
The flight attendants' lawsuit questions these plans, calling it "duplicitous" to secure pension obligations with a put option when Northwest is already warning that it may not honor an existing one.
Where Seven Samurai has heroes and villains in the old western tradition, Yojimbo (Japanese for bodyguard) is a spectacularly cynical and witty black comedy whose cast is venal, self-serving and duplicitous to a man (and woman).
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.
(Waller has a duplicitous plan to use the Suicide Squad to cover up another plan).
But Bashar Assad, like his father Hafez before him, has shown a duplicitous capacity to navigate from safe harbor to save harbor with an admirable dexterity that has a "like father like son" quality to it.
The complaint against EDMC charges that its compensation plan is very much like the one at the University of Phoenix, which the Department of Education found in 2004 "provides substantial incentives to its staff to recruit unqualified students" and "operates in a duplicitous manner" to evade detection.
Can it justify its claims to give a voice to the silent and expose the plight of the powerless?…can it illuminate the dark?" You write that for many critics "photography is a powerful, duplicitous force to defang rather that an experience to embrace and engage".
