Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who acts two different parts in the same business or at the same time; one who professes one thing and intends another; one guilty of duplicity.
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- noun One who
double deals . A cheat or crook.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who says one thing and does another
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Examples
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Convinced that no one will ever want a girl who is an ogre by night, they are ready to give up their kingdom to Rumpelstiltskin, the preeminent double-dealer of his world - when word comes that Fiona has been rescued.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Shrek Forever After Marshall Fine 2010
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Spy fans might question the attention Carter devotes to Blunt's work as an art historian, but this is an important element in the excoriation of the lives of a double-dealer who penetrated to the Royal heartlands of the British establishment.
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However, the anti-Lieberman forces have decided that a guy who is a biography clone of Mark Dayton (who was pretty much a cipher as a senator) is a better deal than a self-serving, maladroit double-dealer.
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Chiang scolded the Young Marshal, saying that he was a double-dealer, representing both the government and the students.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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In both cases, there was the sense of a double-dealer, of someone who tailors his speech to fit the audience, who is not of the people (because he is able to look at them objectively) but always above them.
Speaking in Tongues Smith, Zadie 2009
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How fr back do we have to reset our financial system before the corrupt files and non-working programs of the double-dealer, inside-traders and chopped up derivatives salesmen were "installed"?
Tom Tresser: Where Do We Set the "Restore" System Date? 2009
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He came hither from Cairo, a fugitive, and played the double-dealer in
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They regarded him as a duplicitious double-dealer who was feeding the U.S. government and media with phony intelligence about Saddam's weapons programs and ties to terrorism in order to build a case for war.
You're Fired (Again) 2008
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Petit – Claud was a double-dealer of the profoundly cautious stamp that is never caught by the bait of a present satisfaction, nor entangled by a personal attachment, after his first initiation into the strategy of self-seeking and the instability of the human heart.
Eve and David 2007
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Petit – Claud was a double-dealer of the profoundly cautious stamp that is never caught by the bait of a present satisfaction, nor entangled by a personal attachment, after his first initiation into the strategy of self-seeking and the instability of the human heart.
Eve and David 2007
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