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Definition: Duplicity |
DuplicityNoun1. A fraudulent or duplicitous representation. 2. 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 "duplicity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Duplicity \Du*plic"i*ty\, noun; plural Duplicities. [French duplicit['e], Latin duplicitas, from duplex double. See Duplex.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DuplicitySynonyms: double-dealing (n), fraudulence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Noun: duality, dualism; duplicity; biplicity, biformity; polarity. two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke, conjugation; dispermy, doublets, dyad, span. |
Cunning | Chicane, chicanery; sharp practice, knavery, jugglery; concealment; guile, doubling, duplicity; (falsehood); foul play. |
Falsehood | Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Duplicity |
| English words defined with "duplicity": Capital crime ♦ Doubleness, Double-tongue, Duplicities ♦ Machiavelian ♦ Simple obligation, Single-hearted. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "duplicity": Politician. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Did you forget about me Mr. Duplicity (You Oughta Know; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Duplicity of Hargraves (1917) Duplicity (1916) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Blaise Pascal | We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. |
Charles Caleb Colton | Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another. |
Mikhail A. Bakunin | In politics, as in high finance, duplicity is regarded as a virtue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Duplicity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Duplicity" is used about 86 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) | 100% | 86 | 35,638 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
duplicity | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "duplicity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dyfaqësi, dredhi (art, artifice, cop out, dodge, finesse, gimmick, guile, machination, overreach, pass, ploy, subterfuge, trick, trickery, wangle, wile, wiliness), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), hipokrizi (cant, double dealing, hypocrisy, puppetry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نفاق (cant, dissemblance, double dealing, hypocrisy, insincerity, machiavellian, oiliness, pharisaism, priggishism, smoothness), خداع (artifice, beguilement, bluff, bluffing, cheat, cheating, chicanery, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defraudation, delusion, double dealing, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, humbuggery, imposture, knavery, mystification, roguery, spoof, swindle, swindling, trickery, victimization, wile), إزدواجية (ambivalence, duality), إزدواج (couple), رياء (cant, hypocrisy, insincerity, pharisaism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лицемерие (cant, falsity, hypocrisy, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism, sanctimony), двуличие (double dealing, falseness, hypocrisy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neupřímnost (insincerity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تزویر (Artifice, Wile), ریا (Hyporisy), دولاءی (Duple, Duplex, Gemination), دورنگی (Hyporisy), دوروءی (Guile, Hyporisy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kaksinaamainen peli (double-dealing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | duplicité, fausseté. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Doppelzüngigkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διπροσωπία, διπλοπροσωπία (double dealing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מרמ" (deceitful, deceitfulness, deception, false pretences, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence), ש יות (dualism, duality, secondariness), כפילות (duality, duplexity, duplication, multiplicity), "ו פרצופיות (hypocrisy), צביעות (cant, hypocrisy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | duplicitás, kettõsség (dichotomy, dualism, duality), kettősség (duality), kétszínûség (insincerity), kétszínűség (insincerity, mendacity), kétkulacsosság (straddle), hamisság (falseness, falsity, insincerity, mendacity), alattomosság (craftiness, deepness, disingenuousness, shiftiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | duplicit . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 二枚舌 (double-dealing, double-tongued, equivocation), 二心 (double-dealing, treachery), 弐心 (double-dealing, treachery), 内股膏薬 (double-dealing, fence-sitting, moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict, turncoat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うちまた"うやく (double-dealing, fence-sitting, moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict, turncoat), うちまた"うやく (double-dealing, fence-sitting, moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict, turncoat), ふた""ろ (double-dealing, treachery), にし" (binary, double-dealing, herring, postscript, PS, treachery), にまいじた (double-dealing, double-tongued, equivocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | molteyrys (cheating, confidence trick, deceit, deception, fraud, fraudulence, insidiousness), kialg (calculation, craft, craft slyness, craftiness, deceit, fiddle, fizz, guile, insidiousness, perfidiousness, sedition, subtlety, swindle, swizzle, treachery), far-ghellal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uplicityday duplicidade. (various references) duplicitate (double dealing), ipocrizie (cant, double dealing, fake, humbug, hypocrisy, left-handedness, pietism, unction), falsitate (artfulness, cunning, deceitfulness, depth, double dealing, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity, hollowness, insincerity, mendacity, untruth). (various references) двуличность (double dealing). (various references) dvoličnost. (various references) duplicidad (double dealing). (various references) dubbelspel (double cross, double dealing, doubles). (various references) การหลอกลวง (cheat, hoax, humbug, lie, mountebankery, sleight, swindle). (various references) ikiyüzlülük (ambidexterity, cant, dissimulation, double dealing, hypocrisy, insincerity), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile). (various references) лукавство (arts, craft, craftiness, slyness, wile, wiliness), подво"ність, двоїстість (duality). (various references) trò hai mắt, trò hai mang (double-dealing), tính kép, tính đôi, sự lừa dối (beguilement, cozenage, deceifulness, deceit, deception, delusion, falsehood, gammon, lie), sự ăn ở hai lòng tính nhị nguyên. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | duplicitas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Duplicity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: duplicat, duplicit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "duplicity" (pronounced duwpli"sutē) |
| 7 | -p l i" s u t ē | complicity, multiplicity, simplicity. |
| 6 | -l i" s u t ē | Felicity, publicity. |
| 5 | -i" s u t ē | analyticity, authenticity, domesticity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, ethnicity, specificity, toxicity. |
| 4 | -s u t ē | adversity, animosity, atrocity, audacity, biodiversity, capacity, complexity, curiosity, density, diversity, falsity, ferocity, generosity, incapacity, intensity, laxity, mendacity, monstrosity, necessity, obesity, opacity, overcapacity, paucity, perplexity, perversity, pomposity, propensity, reciprocity, religiosity, scarcity, tenacity, university, varsity, velocity, veracity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, austerity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, divinity, docility, duality, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, femininity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opportunity, originality, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, personality, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, velvety, venality, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, visibility, vitality, volatility, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-i-l-p-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: cupidity, lucidity. | |
-3 letters: tidily. | |
-4 letters: clipt, culti, cupid, dicty, icily, licit, lipid, lucid, ludic, lytic, picul, pudic, tulip, typic, uplit. | |
-5 letters: city, clip, clit, cult, dipt, duci, duct, duit, duly, duty, idly, idyl, litu, pili, pily, pity, puli, pyic, tidy, tipi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-i-i-l-p-t-u-y" | |
+4 letters: duplicitously, quadruplicity. | |
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