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duplicitously
adverb
disapprovinguk /djuˈplɪs.ɪ.təs.li/ us /duːˈplɪs.ə.t̬əs.li/
in a way that involves duplicity(= dishonest talk or behaviour, especially saying different things to different people):
These industries have called duplicitously for action on climate change while also making a profit at the expense of the environment.
He tried to keep the information secret in a duplicitously underhand manner.
Related word
duplicitous
Governments should not act duplicitously, but sometimes do.
He is quite willing to operate duplicitously when he needs to.
They are duplicitously influencing the climate change debate for their own purposes.
How should the jury know if a defendant is speaking duplicitously?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
a pack of liesidiom
artifice
bad faith
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
falsification
feed someone a lineidiom
fib
fiction
flimflam
lie
mythologize
perjure
perjury
polygraph
someone can talk!idiom
stretch the truthidiom
weasel words
white lie
whopper
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