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- verb Present participle of
double-cross .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an act of betrayal
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Examples
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In the show's first season, he had a remarkable scene where he baptized a double-crossing colleague, drowning him.
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In the show's first season, he had a remarkable scene where he baptized a double-crossing colleague, drowning him.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By JAKE COYLE 2011
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In the show's first season, he had a remarkable scene where he baptized a double-crossing colleague, drowning him.
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The sex, the violence, the double-crossing, that is all really just coming from a place of love.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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Trent Kalamack, drug lord and elf in hiding, offers to get the coven off her back, but her double-crossing ex-rat ex-boyfriend, Nick, shows up and lands her in more hot water.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR FEBRUARY 21ST | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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Eventually some double-crossing leads to Chris and his family going into hiding, only to resurface later when they hope all things have calmed down.
Books in 2009, #14 pabba 2009
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Olivia Wilde, meanwhile, I rumored to be courting an appearance as “a double-crossing UN worker based in Afghanistan,” but there is no substantiation to that one, either.
Rumor of the Day: Olivia Wilde and Freida Pinto for Bond 23 | /Film 2010
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I would like to see the Romulans back in their usual clandestine double-crossing xenophobic form (as opposed to dumb thugs) but due to all that time-travel-malarkey.
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The first was his residual anger at his old allies for double-crossing him.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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Ike heatedly complained that “nothing justifies double-crossing us.”
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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