Meaning of DOUBLE DEALING
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- [n] acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
- [adj] 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
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| | Synonyms: | | ambidextrous, deceitful, dishonest, dishonorable, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, duplicity, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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| | See Also: | | deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dou"ble deal"ing\
False or deceitful dealing. See {Double dealing}, under
{Dealing}. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | ambidexterity, ambidextrous, artful, artifice, bad faith, chicane, chicanery, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceitfulness, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonest, dishonesty, double, double-faced, doublehearted, double-minded, doubleness, doubleness of heart, double-tongued, duplicitous, duplicity, faithless, faithlessness, false, falsehearted, falseheartedness, falseness, false-principled, foul play, fraud, hanky-panky, hypocritical, improbity, left-handed, low cunning, Machiavellian, Machiavellianism, perfidious, perfidiousness, perfidy, sharp practice, shifty, slippery, treacherous, treacherousness, treachery, trickery, tricky, two-faced, two-facedness, wile |
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