DOUBLE-DEALER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does double-dealer mean? 

• DOUBLE-DEALER (noun)
  The noun DOUBLE-DEALER has 1 sense:

1. a person who says one thing and does another

  Familiarity information: DOUBLE-DEALER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBLE-DEALER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who says one thing and does another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

betrayer; double-crosser; double-dealer; traitor; two-timer

Hypernyms ("double-dealer" is a kind of...):

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "double-dealer"):

Judas (someone who betrays under the guise of friendship)

 Context examples 

Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)