(1) A section is dedicated to Palestinian fatalities, which deals largely with what it claims are Hamas’s duplicitous numbers.
(2) With [Nigel] Farage – everybody knows that he is duplicitous and he’ll say one thing in one street and something completely different in another but he comes across as though there is some sort of authenticity around him.
(3) But neglecting our relationship with Turkey, creating a smokescreen around our real intentions, blowing hot and cold on Ankara’s European future, promising the moon and then retracting it: this duplicitous attitude has created the situation we have today, and we are now paying the highest price for it.
(4) It is a strange and fickle beast, a flexible friend, dubious and duplicitous, as I was about to find out.
(5) In 4 patients there were duplicit pheochromocytomas and in one triplicit (both adrenals and an extraadrenal pheochromocytoma).
(6) Starring Tim Roth – the actor famous for playing the duplicitous Mr Orange in Reservoir Dogs – as Fifa’s current president Sepp Blatter, Gérard Depardieu as the World Cup creator Jules Rimet, and the New Zealand actor Sam Neill as Blatter’s predecessor João Havelange, it bills itself as the story of “a group of passionate European mavericks” who “join forces on an ambitious project: the Fédération Internationale de Football Association”.
(7) The novel opens with Clay's return from New York to Los Angeles, where he quickly becomes embroiled in a Hollywood-noir thriller plot involving threatening texts from unseen stalkers, dark and duplicitous sex, sinister disappearances and the requisite scenes of unspeakable violence.
(8) More widely, it is designed to portray the Ecuadorean government as duplicitous.
(9) He will teach that the bombing of Hiroshima was premised on a lie, that the CIA's secret war against leftist Central American governments was based on chimerical communist threat, that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were follies and, perhaps most intolerable of all to patriots, that the United States of America is just as self-serving, duplicitous, corrupt, oppressive, expansionist and racist as – there's no easy way to say this – the British empire.
(10) He was clever, duplicitous and manipulative and took advantage of weaknesses in the system.
(11) Then take it on the chin when your boiling frustration because you can't express yourself at the ballot box is dismissed by smug, duplicitous politicians as "voter apathy".
(12) When it comes to Russian and US domestic politics, the worst stereotypes – Russia as a neo-Soviet autocracy, America as a duplicitous hegemon – proliferate on both sides.
(13) So they dissociate from all these qualities, project them out on to others, and develop duplicitous personalities that are on the run, which is why ex-boarders make the best spies.
(14) Nigel Lawson won top marks for the most duplicitously twisted argument: he was voting against because this amendment would “stir up fear” in these EU residents, when there is “no question” of their expulsion.
(15) Imagine that someone told you that your close friend, whom you trusted, was actually duplicitous, could dump you and was disliked by your father.
(16) Israel’s policy towards Gaza since the unilateral disengagement in 2005 has consisted of the systematic violations of international humanitarian law, duplicitous diplomacy and large doses of brute military force.
(17) Even if it turns out that Isis was not involved the narrative is set, and so the boons of publicity far outweigh the drawbacks to being outed as duplicitous.
(18) Villanova's second title is even more unfathomable than 1985's giant-killers Read more The skills in college are lousy, the best players seem to treat the games as pro tryouts, and the coaches are more duplicitous than ever – hard to accomplish in a profession likened to hucking used cars.
(19) "This would appear to confirm that Khan was not a rogue operator; secondly, that the military was deeply involved in what he was doing; and that thirdly, it confirms the growing concerns that the Pakistani military is not working in our interests, at best, and is duplicitous at worst."
(20) Though the duplicitous Pakistani Inter-Services agency helped make and mould them, there's scant double-dealing in the way they fight now.
Surreptitious
Definition:
(a.) Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new approach is presented to the refractive procedure by adding observation, both surreptitious and direct, as an adjunct, an aid and a supplement to differential diagnosis in a refractive examination and in visual analysis.
(2) Aberrantly low plasma levels are more likely due to surreptitious noncompliance or drug interactions with enzyme inducers such as carbamazepine.
(3) A history of episodic edema and hypokalemia, often attributed in women to surreptitious diuretic abuse, requires a careful search for hypercorticism even in the absence of clinical Cushing's syndrome.
(4) Part of that must be down to the way the language of welfare reform is surreptitiously laced with innuendo about scroungers and skivers.
(5) Controls were compared to Ss receiving 2 deepening techniques or 2 suggestions for positive and negative hallucinations that were surreptitiously enhanced.
(6) It soon emerged that the City Planning Commission had already, surreptitiously, designated the area as blighted.
(7) In 2008, Weatherup gave evidence at the trial of Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan, two men jailed for surreptitiously recording then blackmailing a royal family member over gay sex claims and drug-taking.
(8) When she remained anticoagulated during a 2-month period off of warfarin a plasma analysis detected warfarin indicating she was taking the anticoagulant surreptitiously.
(9) Menezes supported pacification, but said that the drug trade for which Alemão was notorious continues surreptitiously: "It doesn't stop.
(10) In the third and fourth experiments, subjects were led to believe that only on stimulus type would occur but were surreptitiously shown another type on a small number of trials.
(11) Surreptitious self-administration of insulin is an important cause of hypoglycemia.
(12) The present study attempted to assess the effectiveness of commonly used deepening techniques and of surreptitiously provided stimulation on hypnotizability scores, in-hypnosis depth reports, retrospective realness ratings, and the Field Inventory of Hypnotic Depth (Field, 1965).
(13) The longer she remains on the throne, the greater her standing on the world stage and the greater the respect for her – and, therefore, the greater her potential surreptitious influence.
(14) The usefulness of assays for the rapid identification and determination of quantitative plasma levels of warfarin sodium and dicumarol is documented by the case histories of five patients: a man who accidentally took dicumarol for several weeks and developed an acute condition within the abdomen, a man who ingested 500 mg of warfarin sodium in a suicide attempt, a malingering nurse who surreptitiously took dicumarol, a nurse with warfarin intoxication who did not follow dosage prescription because of fear of developing thrombosis, and a woman with calf vein thrombosis who did not ingest the administered warfin sodium becausing of fear of developing bleeding.
(15) Tanni Grey-Thompson was Britain's first disabled sports superstar, but she has become, almost surreptitiously, one of Britain's most high-profile disability rights activists.
(16) Surreptitious diuretic use was found in a patient with longstanding hypokalaemia thought to be due to Bartter's syndrome.
(17) Gary, drunk on surreptitious martinis, dripping blood from his hand which he has cut while trying to trim a hedge, furious with his wife for her insistence that he is "clinically depressed" (and because she has confided in their sons that this is the case), has sneaked to the kitchen liquor cabinet.
(18) A case of surreptitious ingestion of oral anticoagulants is presented.
(19) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
(20) Scahill, one of the founders of the Intercept , also last week revealed documents leaked by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden showing the CIA’s years-long effort to break encryption on Apple mobile devices like iPads and iPhones and a related effort by Britain’s GCHQ to surreptitiously retrieve communications data from them.