The phrase 'duplicity by' is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's deceptive or deceitful behavior. It is commonly used in formal or serious contexts. For example: 1. The politician's duplicity by accepting bribes while claiming to fight for justice was exposed by the media. 2. The CEO's duplicity by lying to investors and manipulating company funds ultimately led to the downfall of the company. 3. The author's novel was full of twists and turns, highlighting the duplicity by the main character. 4. The teacher was disappointed by the student's duplicity in using someone else's work as their own. 5. The lawyer was known for his clever use of duplicity by manipulating evidence to win his cases.
He is aided and abetted in his duplicity by his trusty manservant Tranio, played by Jon Barker.
In Shanghai, Jiang will try to get a pass for its duplicity by saying we all love Pakistan's dictator now.
Bruno's entreaty to another manager, Shad Kern (played with mellow-voiced, silken duplicity by Marton Csokas), is a screamingly funny piece of miscommunication.
New accusations of duplicity by the Syrian authorities also came from Susan E. Rice, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, who is the rotating monthly president of the Security Council.
WHEREAS Palestinian negotiators have been reviled for their alleged weakness and duplicity by many Arab commentators following the publication by the Al Jazeera television channel of leaked documents concerning negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians mainly between 2007 and 2008, peace-mongers in Israel have been boosted by them.
The second, the relatively obscure early-1930s ballad "If I Love Again," by Jack Murray and Ben Oakland, was turned into a heartbreaking confession of emotional duplicity by a woman fantasizing the presence of a departed lover while in the arms of others.
Having a skeptical view of male fidelity, and having learned what she already had about Bob, she was less shocked by his admission of romantic duplicity than by the fact of his offspring.
HUNTINGTON "Duplicity," works by Patricia Colombraro.
In a real farce, the protagonist lies to save his skin; his duplicity multiplies by an arithmetic progression until he's driven almost out of his mind by self-consciousness.
"We wear the mask that grins and lies" is how the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar bitterly summarized the duplicity imposed by post-Civil War white supremacy on its emancipated but disenfranchised victims.
The theatrical modesty and duplicity exhibited by these blacks who are an audience for Mrs. Turpin's troubles — despite the fact that she will never be one for theirs — are all just a part of the Southern code of manners.
