noun
- Acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another.
- synonyms: duplicity
adjective
- Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another."she was a deceitful scheming little thing- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer- W. M. Thackeray
- synonyms: ambidextrous, deceitful, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued
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