Definitions for duplicities

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duplicities du·plic·i·ty

Spelling: [doo-plis-i-tee, dyoo-]

IPA: /duˈplɪs ɪ ti, dyu-/

Duplicities is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 625 anagrams from letters in duplicities (cdeiiilpstu).

Definitions for duplicities

noun

1. deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
2. an act or instance of such deceitfulness.
3. Law. the act or fact of including two or more offenses in one count, or charge, as part of an indictment, thus violating the requirement that each count contain only a single offense.
4. the state or quality of having two elements or parts; being twofold or double.

Origin of duplicities

1400-50; late Middle English duplicite Middle French Medieval Latin, Late Latin duplicitās, with -ite replacing -itās; see duplex, -ity

Examples for duplicities

Here was a man after his own heart, which loved intrigue and duplicity.

Palestinians and their sympathizers can point out the unscrupulous dishonesty and duplicity of the Israeli occupiers.

But Cunningham's duplicity had more and closer folds than his own.

He was irritated, too, by a suspicion of duplicity in the members of the force.

But the concealment, the lying and duplicity, these cannot be pardoned until they have been confessed.

It even escalates the discomfort and duplicity by magnitudes.

Decades of mistrust and duplicity on both sides are coming to the surface.

But for a man who delighted in exposing hypocrisies, his relationship to Communism was riddled with duplicity.

This perpetual atmosphere of duplicity was positively distasteful.

duplicity likewise covered Pakistan's Afghan policy from the start.