Double-dealer (Noun)
Meaning
A person who says one thing and does another.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The politician was accused of being a double-dealer after it was revealed that he had secretly accepted bribes from a corporation he had publicly criticized.
- Her business partner turned out to be a double-dealer, secretly working with their competitor to sabotage their own company.
- The company's CEO was a double-dealer, publicly touting the benefits of the new policy while quietly working to undermine it.
- He was a double-dealer, telling his wife he was working late at the office while actually meeting his mistress at a hotel.
- The corrupt official was a double-dealer, taking money from both sides in the conflict while pretending to be a neutral mediator.