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noun
- 1. the practice of working to people's disadvantage behind their backs: "an air of double-dealing and deceit hangs over the negotiations"
adjective
- 1. working deceitfully to injure others: "she is a back-stabbing, double-dealing twister"
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dishonest behaviour and actions intended to deceive: The local business community has been destroyed by corruption, cheating and double-dealing. Synonym. duplicity formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Cheating & tricking. anti-fraud. bad faith. bamboozle. bilk. blackmail. deceive. diddle. feint. flannel. game-fixing. grifter. gull.
The meaning of DOUBLE-DEALING is action contradictory to a professed attitude : duplicity. How to use double-dealing in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Double-Dealing.
the act of cheating or tricking someone by hiding your real intentions: Several high-ranking officials were named in the scandal, accused of fraud and double dealing. (Definition of double-dealing from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of double-dealing. double-dealing.
Double-dealing is behaviour which is deliberately deceitful. Marriages were broken and lives ruined by the revelation of double-dealing. Synonyms: treachery , cheating , betrayal , deception More Synonyms of double-dealing
adjective. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another. “a double-dealing double agent”. synonyms: Janus-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, two-faced. dishonest, dishonorable.
The earliest known use of the noun double-dealing is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for double-dealing is from before 1529, in the writing of John Skelton, poet. double-dealing is formed within English, by compounding.
Definition of double-dealing noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Frequency. Factsheet. What does the adjective double-dealing mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective double-dealing. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions.
DOUBLE–DEALING meaning: the practice of pretending to do or think one thing while really doing or thinking something different dishonest or deceptive behavior.
Synonyms for DOUBLE-DEALING: fraudulent, dishonest, false, deceptive, deceitful, crooked, misleading, duplicitous; Antonyms of DOUBLE-DEALING: honest, truthful, true, legitimate, aboveboard, valid, genuine, sincere
