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Double-dealing definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOUBLE-DEALING, n. Artifice; duplicity; deceitful practice; the profession of one thing and the practice of another.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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 [syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, double- dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued] n
1: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another [syn: duplicity, double-dealing]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1529 action contradictory to a professed attitude ; duplicity Synonyms: see deception • double-dealer noun II. adjective Date: 1587 given to or marked by duplicity

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Double-dealing is behaviour which is deliberately deceitful. Marriages were broken and lives ruined by the revelation of double-dealing. = betrayal, duplicity

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Deceit, duplicity, dissimulation, artifice, deception, fraud, dishonesty, trickery, Machiavelism.