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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DOUBLE-DEALING

n.Artifice; duplicity; deceitful practice; the profession of one thing and the practice of another.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

double-dealing

dou ble-deal ing |ˈˌdəbəl ˈˌdilɪŋ | noun the practice of working to people's disadvantage behind their backs. adjective working deceitfully to injure others: she is a backstabbing, double-dealing twister. DERIVATIVES dou ble-deal er noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

double-dealing

double-dealing noun [ mass noun ] the practice of working to people's disadvantage behind their backs. adjective working deceitfully to injure others: she is a back-stabbing, double-dealing twister. DERIVATIVES double-dealer noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

double-dealing

double-dealing noun your double-dealing will eventually be your undoing: duplicity, treachery, betrayal, double-crossing, unfaithfulness, untrustworthiness, infidelity, bad faith, disloyalty, breach of trust, fraud, underhandedness, cheating, dishonesty, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, falseness; informal crookedness. ANTONYMS honesty.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

double-dealing

double-dealing noun one day his double-dealing would be discovered: duplicity, treachery, betrayal, double-crossing, faithlessness, unfaithfulness, untrustworthiness, infidelity, bad faith, disloyalty, perfidy, perfidiousness, treason, breach of trust, fraud, fraudulence, underhandedness, cheating, dishonesty, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, falseness, stab in the back, back-stabbing, lying, mendacity, trickery, two-facedness; informal crookedness, two-timing; rare Punic faith. ANTONYMS honesty, straightforwardness, trustworthiness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

double-dealing

d uble-d aling 形容詞 名詞 U 言行に裏表のある (こと ), 不誠実な (こと ).