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Saying one thing, meaning another, and billing both as sincerity.
means The practice of being deliberately two-faced — saying or promising one thing while believing or doing another.
from From Latin duplicitas, built from duplex, 'twofold' or 'double' (duo 'two' plus plicare 'to fold'). The image is literal: something folded in two, two layers where the eye expects one. English borrowed the word in the 1400s through French, and it kept the sense of a hidden second layer — a person presenting one face while folding another underneath it.
- root
- latin duplicitas, literally doubleness
- not
- simple lying, which lacks the charm offensive
- sibling word
- duplex, same root, less morally bankrupt
- tell
- consistency only in front of witnesses