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double-dealing noun

• the practice of working to people's disadvantage behind their backs.
• "an air of double-dealing and deceit hangs over the negotiations"
Similar: duplicity, treachery, betrayal, double-crossing, faithlessness, unfaithfulness, untrustworthiness, infidelity, bad faith, disloyalty, perfidy, perfidiousness, treason, breach of trust, fraud, fraudulence, underhandedness, cheating, dishonesty, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, falseness, stab in the back, back-stabbing, lying, mendacity, trickery, two-facedness, crookedness, two-timing, Punic faith,
Opposite: honesty, straightforwardness, trustworthiness,

double-dealing adjective

• working deceitfully to injure others.
• "she is a back-stabbing, double-dealing twister"


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