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duplicity: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

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doublethink collapse: believing two contradictory ideas at the same time

Janus collapse: (Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head

dissimulation collapse

perfidy collapse: betrayal of a trust

halving collapse

hocus-pocus collapse

furtiveness collapse: a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously

dualism collapse: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

dirty work collapse

dichotomy collapse: being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"

treason collapse: a crime that undermines the offender's government; disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior

bad faith collapse

foul play collapse: unfair or treacherous behavior (especially involving violence)

guile collapse

pairing collapse: the act of grouping things or people in pairs

bifurcation collapse: the act of splitting into two branches; the place where something divides into two branches; a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)

dirty trick collapse: an unkind or aggressive trick

treachery collapse: an act of deliberate betrayal

double dealing collapse

lying collapse: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

doubling collapse: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff"; increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all"

dissemblance collapse

irony collapse: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

dishonesty collapse: lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing; the quality of being dishonest

ambivalence collapse: mixed feelings or emotions

ambiguity collapse: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning; an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

polarity collapse: having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign"

deceit collapse

hypocrisy collapse: insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have; an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction

duplication collapse: the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"

indirection collapse: deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats"; indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection"

trickery collapse: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

chicanery collapse

artfulness collapse: the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage

wile collapse

deception collapse: the act of deceiving

conjugation collapse: a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms; the complete set of inflected forms of a verb; the inflection of verbs

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