"I am absolutely outraged by the dishonest and duplicitous words and actions of Jack Abramoff," Ney said last year when Abramoff's statements about Ney first came up in e-mails released by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.
Humphrey Bogart and George Clooney demand candor from a duplicitous world.
The show was a sensation in the U.K., where co-creator and star Ricky Gervais' pitch-perfect character David Brent has become a by-word for a duplicitous boss who views his every action through a lens of fond self-rapture and can't imagine everyone else isn't similarly smitten.
And I just wish there were another word because mimicry sounds so duplicitous.
One of the things about mimicry, the word mimicry, is that it sounds duplicitous on its face.
The French and their allies King John, his sons Charles and Philip, the duke of Lorraine, Lord Villiers, and others are at times duplicitous and cowardly, though some Frenchmen do keep their word.
And that catharsis – to use a word discovered in the play by the duplicitous yet innocent wife (the ravishing Ms. Kheswa) – can be achieved in sunlight as well as darkest fog.
This book is much more duplicitous than that.
The very words goodfellas or wiseguys are steeped in duplicitous, aggressive comedy; no one rules a situation like a guy who's just got a laugh at someone else's expense.
However, it's the combination of all those synonyms that makes this word so profoundly perfect in the age of Donald Trump and his duplicitous white Christian followers.
