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dou·ble-deal·ing

(dŭb′əl-dē′lĭng)

adj.

Duplicitous or deceitful; treacherous.

Duplicity or deceit; treachery.

dou′ble-deal′er n.

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double-dealing

a. action characterized by treachery or deceit

b. (as modifier): double-dealing treachery.

ˈdouble-ˈdealer n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

dou′ble-deal′ing

1. deception or treachery; duplicity.

adj.

2. using duplicity; treacherous.

[1520–30]

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Noun	1.	double-dealing - acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another duplicity dissimulation, deception, dissembling, deceit - the act of deceiving
Adj.	1.	double-dealing - marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray double-tongued, duplicitous, two-faced, Janus-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful, double-faced dishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

double-dealing

noun

1. treachery, cheating, betrayal, deception, hypocrisy, two-timing (informal), deceit, dishonesty, trickery, foul play, duplicity, bad faith, perfidy, mendacity There has been some double-dealing

adjective

1. treacherous, lying, cheating, tricky, crooked (informal), fraudulent, two-timing (informal), dishonest, hypocritical, wily, swindling, sneaky, two-faced, deceitful, untrustworthy, duplicitous, perfidious, underhanded Slimy, double-dealing politicians have betrayed us all.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

double-dealing

adjective

Being or acting so as to conceal one's real intentions:

double, double-faced, two-faced.

noun

The act or practice of deceiving:

cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, duplicity, guile, shiftiness.

Translations

double-dealing

[ˈdʌblˈdiːlɪŋ] N → trato m doble, juego m doble, duplicidad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

double-dealing

[ˌdʌblˈdiːlɪŋ] n → doppio gioco

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

double

(ˈdabl) adjective

1. of twice the (usual) weight, size etc. A double whisky, please.

2. two of a sort together or occurring in pairs. double doors.

3. consisting of two parts or layers. a double thickness of paper; a double meaning.

4. for two people. a double bed.

adverb

1. twice. I gave her double the usual quantity.

2. in two. The coat had been folded double.

noun

1. a double quantity. Whatever the women earn, the men earn double.

2. someone who is exactly like another. He is my father's double.

verb

1. to (cause to) become twice as large or numerous. He doubled his income in three years; Road accidents have doubled since 1960.

2. to have two jobs or uses. This sofa doubles as a bed.

ˈdoubles noun singular

or noun plural in tennis etc, a kind of match with two players on each side. I enjoy playing doubles; (also adjective) a doubles match.

double agent

a spy paid by each of two countries hostile to each other.

double bass (beis)

a type of large stringed instrument, the largest and deepest in sound of the violin family.

ˌdouble-ˈbedded adjective

containing a double bed. a double-bedded room.

double-ˈcheck verb

to check something again. double-check the results of the experiment.

ˌdouble-ˈcross verb

to betray (someone for whom one has already arranged to do something deceitful).

ˌdouble-ˈdealing noun

cheating and deceitfulness.

adjective

cheating. You double-dealing liar!

ˌdouble-ˈdecker noun

a bus etc having two decks or levels.

adjective

a double-decker bus.

ˌdouble-ˈDutch noun

nonsense. You're talking double-Dutch!

double figures

the numbers between 10 and 99. The number of times you have been late is well into double figures.

ˌdouble-ˈquick adjective, adverb

very quick(ly). Get here double-quick / in double-quick time!

at the double

very quickly. He came up the road at the double and rushed into the house.

double back

to turn and go back the way one came. The fox doubled back and went down a hole.

double up

1. to (cause to) bend or collapse suddenly at the waist. We (were) doubled up with laughter; He received a blow in the stomach which doubled him up.

2. to join up in pairs. There weren't enough desks, so some pupils had to double up.

see double

to see two images of everything instead of only one. When I first met the twins, I thought I was seeing double, they were so alike.

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Dean, I like you, but I don't like your double-dealing,' he added aloud.

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I did not, it is true, like my position in his house; but being freed from the annoyance of false professions and double-dealing I could endure it, especially as no heroic sentiment of hatred or jealousy of the director distracted my philosophical soul; he had not, I found, wounded me in a very tender point, the wound was so soon and so radically healed, leaving only a sense of contempt for the treacherous fashion in which it had been inflicted, and a lasting mistrust of the hand which I had detected attempting to stab in the dark.

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We, the people, must be the masters now with untrustworthy, double-dealing Johnson sacked in the national interest.

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