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Noun
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He’s taken to publicly shaming GOP lawmakers on X and on Fox News, accusing them of hypocrisy by not supporting President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.—
Lawrence Mower,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025 -
But some pro-Israel and conservative influencers rushed to Musk’s defense, accusing Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives of hypocrisy for not loudly condemning Nazi sympathizers and salutes at pro-Palestinian protests.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Jan. 2025
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Those intrepid few who still clung to the belief that American perfidy shielded Duke’s players from true justice just had the rug pulled out from under them by Mangum herself.—
The Editors,
National Review,
17 Dec. 2024
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Putin inundates Ukraine’s airwaves with propaganda about the West’s perfidy, the West’s agonizingly slow and insufficient support of Ukraine, the West’s seeming willingness to bleed Ukraine as a proxy, Zelensky’s anti-democratic centralization of power, and the like.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes,
9 Oct. 2024
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Queen’s duplicity and thirst for vengeance make a stunning showcase for Lewek’s electric sense of drama, brilliant tone, and spitfire technique.—
Matthew Gurewitsch,
airmail.news,
17 Aug. 2024
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The Cold War nurtured a culture of secrets and lies that the population came to tolerate as a strategic necessity; at the turn of the millennium, the war on terror took that duplicity to new levels of sophistication.—
Karen Parker Lears,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Garcia is quick and adept at carrying the ball into dangerous areas, with his trickery opening space for others to exploit.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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In the human realm, at least, equating cuckoldry solely with trickery and the cuckolded as weak and foolish is inaccurate.—
Brooke Scelza,
Scientific American,
19 Sep. 2024
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The series was loosely inspired by the non-fiction book The Woman Who Fooled the World, written by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the two journalists who uncovered the details of Gibson’s deception.—
Abid Rahman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 Feb. 2025
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Some users saw deception as the biggest issue, while others questioned whether the wife's stance was fair, given the monetary opportunity.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The title page of the 31-sheet mimeographed pamphlet was designed to hide the contents of the publication and perhaps make a joke about the flowery indirection of the Arabic language.—
Steve Hindy,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Aug. 2015
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There may be many other backdoors, but the one everyone is talking about uses the function indirection stuff to add the hook.—
Dan Goodin,
Ars Technica,
1 Apr. 2024
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Gilded by privilege and cunning, Glinda is a popular young woman who desires to wield magic.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2025
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There’s an unapologetic cunning at the heart of this series, and a mercurial spirit that’s as slippery as blood on an Italian marble floor.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2024
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“Insidiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insidiousness. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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