All duplicity synonyms

noun duplicity

• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
• perfidy — deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
• perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
• one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
• skullduggery — skulduggery.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• duality — a dual state or quality.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• dualism — the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• dirty pool — unethical, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.
• dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
• dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
• treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
• two-faced — having two faces.
• dirty trick — act: unfair, dishonest
• disloyalty — the quality of being disloyal; lack of loyalty; unfaithfulness.
• unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
• deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.