double-dealing
/ˌdʌbəlˈdiːlɪŋ/
double-dealing adjective: cheating, dishonest; treacherous.
Adjective
double-dealing (not comparable)
- Cheating, dishonest; treacherous.
- You low-down, no-good, double-dealing sidewinder!
- Synonyms:
- double-crossing, double-faced, double-hearted, beguiling, deceitful, deceptious, deceptive, deceptory, fallacious, fraudful
Noun
double-dealing (countable and uncountable, plural double-dealings)
double-dealing meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
double-dealing in Tamil
- வஞ்சகம், இரண்டகம்
double-dealing in Malayalam
- treachery, duplicity, betrayal
- ഇണയെ വഞ്ചിക്കൽ, ഇണയോടു വിശ്വസ്തത പുലർത്താതിരിക്കൽ, ഛലരചന, വഞ്ചന, വഞ്ചനം, ഇരട്ടത്താപ്പ്
Synonyms of double-dealing
- double-crossing
- double-faced
- double-hearted
- beguiling
- deceitful
- deceptive
- deceptory
- fallacious
- fraudful
- fraudulent
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- mendacious
- booky
- dastardly
- disloyal
- doublehearted
- faithless
- false
- false-hearted
- guileful
- hollow-hearted
- infidelitous
- Judaslike
- Judasly
- nonfaithful
- perfidious
- Punic
- ratlike
- recreant
- renegade
- reptilian
- traitorish
- traitorlike
- traitorly
- traitorous
- traitorsome
- treacherous
- treachersome
- unfaithful
- unleal
- unloyal
Forms of double-dealing
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | doubledealing |
| Noun | |
| plural | double-dealings |
Origin of double-dealing
From the practice of dealing oneself multiple cards in order to gain an advantage in a game.
Questions about double-dealing
- What does double-dealing mean?
- Double-dealing means cheating, dishonest; treacherous.
- What is double-dealing in Tamil?
- Double-dealing in Tamil is வஞ்சகம், இரண்டகம். See Double-dealing meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is double-dealing?
- Double-dealing can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce double-dealing?
- Double-dealing is pronounced /ˌdʌbəlˈdiːlɪŋ/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: double-dealing (page history and authors); double-dealing (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); double-dealing (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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