| 单词 | duplicitous |
| 释义 | duplicitous (once / 76749 pages) adj That guy in the drama club who tells everyone he hates organized sports one day and then joins the football team the next? He's being duplicitous, or pretending to have feelings that his actions contradict. In duplicitous, you can see the word duplicity, which means "doubleness." Someone who is duplicitous is almost like two people, saying one thing but then doing something very different, even contradictory. Someone who is duplicitous can also be called "two-faced," a vivid way to remember that this person shouldn't be trusted or taken at face value. WORD FAMILYduplicitous: duplicitously+/duplicity: duplicities, duplicitous USAGE EXAMPLESShakespeare's play, here set in a military barracks, tells of an army general driven into a jealous rage by a duplicitous lieutenant. BBC(Dec 13, 2016) Or does that make you duplicitous and shallow? Wall Street Journal(Dec 01, 2016) Beckinsale takes such evident joy in playing someone so duplicitous – her energy is infectious. The Guardian(Nov 25, 2016) adj marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another Syn Janus-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, two-faced dishonest, dishonorable deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive |
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