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Definition of Duplicitous
1. Adjective. Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another. "A double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"
Similar to: Dishonest, Dishonorable
Derivative terms: Deceitfulness, Double-dealing, Duplicity, Duplicity
Definition of Duplicitous
1. Adjective. Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Duplicitous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duplicitous
Literary usage of Duplicitous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Federal Equity Practice: A Treatise on the Pleadings Used and Practice by Thomas Atkins Street (1909)
"Plea Must Not Be duplicitous or Multifarious. The plea being recognized in equity
pleading only because it conduces to limit the field of inquiry, ..."
2. Notes on Texas Reports: A Chronological Series of Annotations of the by Walter Malins Rose, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Texas Supreme Court, Charles Lawrence Thompson, 1875- ed, Charles Lawrence Thompson (1911)
"Ap. 251, 9 SW 735, holding indictment charging separate offenses in separate
counts not duplicitous. 7 Tex. Ap. 30-34, HAINES v. STATE. ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"Pierce, 77 Iowa 245, wherein an indictment alleging the embezzlement of two pianos
was nut duplicitous, although it charged that the conversion occurred ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"Pleading <®=>64(2)— duplicitous allegation cured by other allegations. Though an
allegation that a watchman knew or should have known that plaintiff's ..."
5. A Treatise on Criminal Procedure by Francis Wharton, James Manford Kerr (1918)
"Smalls, 11 SC 262. accepted, and received a bribe is 2 Com. v. Bailey, 26 Ky. L.
Rep. not duplicitous. — State v. ..."
6. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States, of by United States, Edward Thompson Company (1921)
"An indictment under this section is not duplicitous by reason of the allegations
that a false entry in a report by a bank president was made with the intent ..."
7. A Treatise on Federal Criminal Law Procedure by William Hawley Atwell (1916)
"Indictment duplicitous, When.—Indictment duplicitous which says "injure and
defraud," etc. Since the statute uses the disjunctive "or" instead of the ..."
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