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Definition: Double-dealing |
Double-dealingAdjective1. Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray. Noun1. Acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "double-dealing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: Double-dealingSynonyms: ambidextrous (adj), deceitful (adj), double-faced (adj), double-tongued (adj), duplicitous (adj), two-faced (adj), duplicity (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Double-dealing |
| English words defined with "double-dealing": ambidextrous ♦ deceitful, double cross, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous ♦ Janus-faced ♦ two-faced. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! (Heavy Metal; writing credit: Len Blum; Corny Cole) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Double-dealing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Double-dealing" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "double-dealing": double-dealing-faced. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "double-dealing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vilppi (deceit, fraud), kaksinaamainen peli (duplicity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 裏表 (both sides, opposite, reverse, wrong side out), 二股膏薬 (timeserver), 二枚舌 (double-tongued, duplicity, equivocation), 二心 (duplicity, treachery), 弐心 (duplicity, treachery), 内股膏薬 (duplicity, fence-sitting, moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict, turncoat), 両舌 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うらおもて (both sides, opposite, reverse, wrong side out), うちまた"うやく (duplicity, fence-sitting, moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict, turncoat), うちまた"うやく (duplicity, fence-sitting, moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict, turncoat), ふたまた"うやく (timeserver), ふた""ろ (duplicity, treachery), にし" (binary, duplicity, herring, postscript, PS, treachery), にまいじた (double-tongued, duplicity, equivocation), りょうぜつ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouble-dealingday traição (betrayal, monkey business, perfidy, recreancy, treachery, treason), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), falsidade (eyewash, falsehood, falseness, falsity, flam, insincerity, lie, lying, perfidy, prevarication, sham, tale, untruth). (various references) ipocrit (cant, canter, canting, dissembler, double-dealer, double-dealing-faced, fairfaced, false, feigner, histrionic, hollow, hypocrite, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pietist, squeamish, Tartuffe). (various references) trò lá mặt lá trái, trò hai mặt, trò hai mang (duplicity), lá mặt lá trái (two-faced), hai mặt (dihedral, double), hai mang (doubly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-g-i-l-l-n-o-u" | |
-3 letters: bludgeoned. | |
-4 letters: andouille, belauding, deleading, dialogued, dodgeball, euglenoid, idealogue, unlabeled. | |
-5 letters: abounded, alluding, begalled, beguiled, beladied, belauded, belonged, bleeding, blindage, bludgeon, blueline, buddleia, danegeld, deadline, deluding, deniable, dialoged, dialogue, doubling, duelling, duodenal, eloigned, engilded, englobed, eulogiae, gabelled, glandule, globulin, guidable, indulged, labeling, lendable, lienable, lineable, lobeline, loudened, nielloed, oeillade, unallied, unbilled, unbodied, undoable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 75 62 6C 65 2D 64 65 61 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110101 01100010 01101100 01100101 00101101 01100100 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o u b l e - d e a l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0075 0062 006C 0065 002D 0064 0065 0061 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3881876878711570716778758073 |
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