He speaks of his mistrust of the adult world and, in the process, also reveals his blatantly
duplicitous means of surviving adolescence — on his own terms.
Not exact matches
Everyone knows this and for the author to ignore this fact either
means he is incredibly inexperienced (troubling) or down right
duplicitous (scandalous).
But in the Biblical sense, it
means «not
duplicitous».
It also pays to examine closely what the
duplicitous deeds really
mean: from some vantage points, such behavior may actually support a hypocrite's point of view, significantly softening the hypocrisy charge in those cases.