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• n  acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
• s  marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
  a double-dealing double agent

• The rhetoric, called priggish by some, is not surprising for a guy who has built his career fighting Mob bosses, terrorists, drug lords and double-dealing public servants like .
• Johnson's biographer Andrew Gimson later interviewed Black, now something of a byword for double-dealing after his conviction this summer for criminal fraud.
• Brown "stands accused of double-dealing, on the one hand apparently saying to the Americans they wanted Megrahi to die in prison, but on the other hand saying privately to the .

• duplicity
• ambidextrous
• deceitful
• duplicitous
• Janus-faced
• two-faced
• double-faced
• double-tongued

News & Articles

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• Mexico drug war 101
  There are kingpins with names like the Engineer, head-chopping hit men, dirty cops and double-dealing politicians. And, of course, there are users -- millions of them.
  Aug. 23, 2013 - CNN

Quotes

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• Gordon Brown in Reuters South Africa
  On our part, there was no conspiracy, no cover-up, no double-dealing, no deal on oil, no attempt to instruct Scottish ministers, no private assurances by me to (Libyan leader) Colonel (Muammar) Gaddafi,Brown said at an employment summit in...
• Mark J. Sullivan in Boston Globe
  Obviously, we weren't happy that a person working for us as an informant was double-dealing,Mark Sullivan said.
• David Cameron in Reuters India
  We are now in a shambolic situation where the government has upset one of our most important allies,Cameron told BBC radio. "They stand accused of double-dealing, saying one thing to the Libyans and something else to the Americans."