duplicities

Updated: May 13, 2025

The latter appeared every moment more unable to accommodate himself to a society so little to his taste. His disposition not at all malleable, hard, and very little flexible rejected the duplicities and the compromises of language to simulate concord when it did not exist.

Benito Pérez Galdós - Dona Perfecta

But sometimes, after benignantly speeding, for instance, one of the Watchetts on her morning constitutional, he would slip down into the basement and ejaculate, 'Cursed hag! with a calm and natural earnestness, which frightened Hilda, indicating as it did that he must be capable of astounding duplicities. He came, now, directly to the underground parlour, hat on head and ebony stick in hand.

Arnold Bennett - Hilda Lessways