DUPLICITY in a Sentence

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35 example sentences for DUPLICITY, such as:

1. We'll have a duplicate key cut.
2. We made a duplicate of the key.
3. 'Yes, a duplicate,' she said, flushing.
4. Parenthood is an experience nothing else can duplicate.
5. The newspaper had commenced as a duplicated broadsheet.

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 Meanings and Examples of DUPLICITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
duplicity
 n.  double-dealing; deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; acting in bad faith.
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  This trick did not suggest duplicity or secretiveness, but merely long habit, as with the horse.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
3  He arose, and told his tale without duplicity or reservation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
4  I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  If I were not afraid of judging harshly, I should be almost tempted to say that there is a strong appearance of duplicity in all this.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
6  She suddenly felt ashamed of her duplicity, but even more she dreaded how he might meet her.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 32
7  The manoeuvres of selfishness and duplicity must ever be revolting, but I have heard nothing which really surprises me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
8  "Frankly and loyally," repeated Milady, with an unspeakable expression of duplicity.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 44 THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES
9  From all which circumstances his duplicity might have been suspected, since, had he meant to do as he had engaged, it was most unlikely that he should be negotiating so openly.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XLVIII.
10  It was claimed that same evening, and returned; but in the interval I had taken a moulding of it, and had a duplicate constructed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
11  'Yes, a duplicate,' she said, flushing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
12  I have been making a duplicate of the catalogue of my father's books and pictures.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  Moulton, an American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I had seen in the duplicate bill.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
14  Some little time ago he purchased from Morse Hudson two duplicate plaster casts of the famous head of Napoleon by the French sculptor, Devine.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
15  There were only four stationers of any consequences in the town, and at each Holmes produced his pencil chips, and bid high for a duplicate.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
Example Sentence:
1  When Tanya learned that Mark had been two-timing her, she was furious at his duplicity.
2  Parenthood is an experience nothing else can duplicate.
3  His task will be to duplicate his success overseas here at home.
4  We made a duplicate of the key.
5  We'll have a duplicate key cut.
6  And now, sir, to reward you for the accurate guess, I will promise to paint you a careful and faithful duplicate of this picture.
7  He warned of the potential for gap, overlap and duplication.
8  Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work.
9  He duplicated a few copies of her letter and handed her the original.
10  New copies of the form can be duplicated from a master copy.
11  The newspaper had commenced as a duplicated broadsheet.
12  Profits in the mass market are slender at best, the result of too much duplicated investment under the bonnet on technologies that are indistinguishable to car buyers.