1891 Texas Rep. 78 403 It [sc. the petition] is duplicitous and hypothetical in this, that it states [etc.].

1904 Southern Reporter (U.S.) 36 62/2 Blending them together would tend to confuse the issues and make the pleading duplicitous.

1932 Federal Reporter (1933) 2nd Ser. 61 418/2 The principal contention of appellant is that the indictment is vague, indefinite, and duplicitous.

1949 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 174 921/1 Appellant moved to dismiss the information on the ground that each of the counts was duplicitous in that each attempted to charge more than one offense denounced by the Act.

1986 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 May 1453/1 A charge should not be ‘duplicitous’—in other words,..it should not roll a number of allegations up into one charge.

1958 W. Miller Way we live Now 114 That's not what I mean by duplicity. Duplicitous is when you are not being for real, when you are not playing your role honestly. Most of us lead duplicitous lives.

1966 New Statesman 11 Mar. 350/3 Peggy Mount, as the duplicitous washerwoman,..subdues her comic extravagance.

1969 G. Leff Hist. & Social Theory ii. 44 Whether John was contrite or merely duplicitous in acceding to the barons' demands in 1215 is irrelevant to the meaning of Magna Carta.

1978 S. Brill Teamsters iii. 106 If anyone had been duplicitous, it had been Hoffa.

1987 New Yorker 19 Jan. 61/2 I came away feeling that he..didn't have the experience or the background to deal with the duplicitous ministers.

1985 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Mar. 324/1 The method itself is duplicitous, coupling the columns, as in all grand processions, so that Henry Adams paces with Eliot, Emerson with Thoreau.

1951 South Western Reporter (U.S.) 2nd Ser. CCXLIV. 662/2 The matter of duplicitousness of the assignment is not raised.

1966 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 359 973/2 (heading) Duplicitousness of Count Five... This Count charged appellants..with violation of the relevant statute on two occasions.

1979 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 2 Jan. 2/3 ‘The defendant also contends that the indictment is void for “duplicitousness”.’ It is not clear who coined that word, whether the court borrowed it from the defendant's brief or invented it to denote a duplication, for that was the defendant's claim.

1985 New Hampsh. Rep. 126 646 The duplicitousness runs afoul of the requirement that an indictment inform a defendant of the charge he must meet.