double-dealing in English

adjective
1
working deceitfully to injure others.
she is a backstabbing, double-dealing twister
noun
1
the practice of working to people's disadvantage behind their backs.
His prior record of deception, double-dealing , and concealment makes that quite impossible.

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1. She is just another double-dealing lawyer.

2. How do counter-revolutionaries employ their double-dealing tactics?

3. And so the game of deceit and double-dealing continued.

4. After finally ridding himself of double-dealing Laban, Jacob headed home.

5. Clients will get less double-dealing, investors a bit more information.

6. They suggest that some US intelligence sources have been double-dealing them.

7. Marriages were broken and lives ruined by the revelation of double-dealing.

8. Their "always stood for" is truly an example of their double-dealing.

9. The local business community has been destroyed by corruption, cheating and double-dealing.

10. However, they confirm a picture of Pakistani double-dealing that has been building for years.

11. “Beware, therefore, you masking players, you painted sepulchres, you double dealing Ambidexters” (Stubbes in Pollard 2004: 118)

12. In the evening, it will kick out, catch a double-dealing mice. It also very neat and clean!

13. She may be a back-stabbing, double-dealing, power-hungry twister, but she's one of my own kind.

14. She didn't trust him, but without solid evidence she had no way of proving he was double-dealing.

15. “Masking players, painted sepulchers and double dealing Ambidexters” on duty: anti-theatricalist tracts on audience involvement and the transformative power …

16. 12 synonyms for Ambidextrous: disingenuous, insincere, left-handed, mala fide, two-handed, double-dealing, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-faced, deceitful

17. President Obama should threaten to hold up future aid to Pakistan if it doesn't put an end to its double-dealing.

18. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said earlier there was "no cover-up, no double-dealing, no deal on oil" linked to the bomber's early release last month.

19. After a decade of acquiescing in the Pakistan army's double-dealing on terror, the US is now engaged in a relentless bombardment with drones of Pakistan's terror havens.

20. Mr. Brown insisted in a speech on Wednesday that there had been "no conspiracy no cover-up no double-dealing no deal on oil" involved in Mr. Megrahi's release.

21. It was this person who at the Lushan Meeting put his utmost efforts into a counter - revolutionary double-dealing tactic, and actively backed Peng Teh - huai's anti - Party activities.

22. The first says China Netcom rightly put a double-dealing Richard Li and a band of suspected asset- strippers in their place; the second, that China Netcom blew it.

23. It provoked tears as well as incisive questions about unarmed peace- keeping forces and the double- dealing of a Western society that picks its moral fights with commodities in mind.

24. We must give the young people a clear idea of the aggressive nature and double-dealing tactics of the US imperialists and prevent them from having any illusion about the imperialists.

25. He thus implicitly compares himself toSisyphus, a Greek king condemned to Hades for double-dealing andpunished by being forced to roll boulders uphill, only to have themroll down again for eternity.

26. Although the Obama administration has gone public with the fact that the Haqqani network is a "veritable arm” of the ISI, Washington appears reluctant to follow through the logic and confront the Pakistan army’s double-dealing in Afghanistan.

27. Though the IRA and Sinn Féin claim to have expelled or suspended up to ten members linked to this murder, their duplicity and double-dealing is amply illustrated by the fact that, three months after this murder, this cut-throat psychopath remained publicly proclaimed as one of Sinn Féin’s official treasurers.