duplicity
C2CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General noun
Deceitful double-dealing; contradictory conduct intended to deceive.
Her public piety concealed a duplicity that eventually undid her.
Business noun
Deceitfulness in speech or conduct; double-dealing.
The dual set of books revealed a duplicity that went far beyond aggressive accounting.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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