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Double-crossing   /dˈəbəl-krˈɔsɪŋ/   Listen
Double-crossing

noun
1.
An act of betrayal.  Synonym: double cross.  "I could no longer tolerate his impudent double-crossing"






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"Double-crossing" Quotes from Famous Books



... double-crossing the indictment. I'm the offended idiot," declared the Tyro, opening ...
— Little Miss Grouch - A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's - Maiden Transatlantic Voyage • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... sat down in his room and put into his report a full statement about Miss Kennard's arrival and actions and his own activity in regard to her. Crowley had elaborate ideas about the art of double-crossing everybody, even his associates in the agency. He figured that it could not hurt anything to give Mern a full report on all matters; and if there was anything peculiar in Kennard's presence there, Crowley's assiduity ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day

... which casteth out fear—live and work in fear, and in mistrust of their colleagues. From the supreme councils of the Allies down to the crooks and conspirators in dives and joints everyone is afraid of being double-crossed. There is so much double-crossing everywhere that we have been obliged to invent this name for the operation. England is afraid of being double-crossed by Germany, France by England, Italy by France, the United States by Europe, and Japan by the United States, ...
— The Conquest of Fear • Basil King



Words linked to "Double-crossing" :   treason, perfidy, treachery, betrayal



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