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duplicitous

adj
/djʊˈplɪsɪtəs/UK/duːˈplɪsətəs/US

Etymology

From duplicity + -ous.

  1. borrowed from duplex
  2. suffixed as duplicity — “duplex + ity”
  3. suffixed as duplicitous — “duplicity + ous”

Definitions

  1. Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.

    • It reunites the horribly duplicitous skag-addicted non-heroes of the first movie about twentysomethings trying to get off heroin in Edinburgh, and finding that they have nothing very much to put in its place.
    • Russia played on those feelings by attacking the French president, Emmanuel Macron[…], saying Moscow still remembered the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte and accusing the French president of duplicitous diplomacy with the Kremlin.
    • “(chuckles) That duplicitous genius. She's betraying me! She's probably already on Plymeria, subjugating its feeble populace. -Quick, to the shuttle.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at duplicitous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at duplicitous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at duplicitous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA