Re: Reverse dictionary

"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Peter T. Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Neither of those is appropriate. You want "spy," "secret agent,"
> > "infiltrator," "decoy," "wolf in sheep's clothing," etc. (That's
what
> > thesauruses are good for.)
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> > Peter T. Daniels                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <Secret agent> would be closest to what I was thinking, but this is a
known
> entity.  I am looking for an unproven case such as a <mole> in the
sense of
> a deception or propaganda supplier.
>
> The example that prompted this search was someone calling
Schwarzeneggar a
> 'confederate', meaning that he appears like a conservative but in fact
has
> been legislating leftist acts.  Another example, with or without
factuality,
> was someone saying online that Menachim Begin created one of the
militant
> Palestinian groups in order to give ordinary Palestinians the desire
for
> peace.
>
> So what word, here, would you use to describe the militant group as
well as
> Arnold?

How about 'duplicitous/duplicity'?

 From MW11:

"1 : contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action;
especially   : the belying of one's true intentions by deceptive words
or action
2 : the quality or state of being double or twofold"

Carl Taylor