All 4 Uses of
duplicity
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- He remembered that Isabel, in separating from him in Winchester Square, had repudiated his suggestion that her motive in doing so was the expectation of a visitor at Pratt's Hotel, and it was a new pang to him to have to suspect her of duplicity.†
Chpt 17 *duplicity = deception -- such as lying
- —and Ralph's face lighted with the relief of his cousin's not having shown duplicity.†
Chpt 17
- It was true her aunt's complaint had been not so much of Madame Merle's activity as of her duplicity: she had brought about the strange event and then she had denied her guilt.†
Chpt 40
- Of this refinement of duplicity she presently acquitted him; she preferred to believe him in perfect good faith.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
deception (lying to or misleading others) -- usually over an extended period