double-dealer

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DOUBLE-DEALER, noun One who acts two different parts, in the same business, or at the same time; a deceitful, trickish person; one who says one thing and thinks or intends another; one guilty of duplicity.
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