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Chap 9&10 Human Being Flashcards

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l’éthique

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ethics

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pas éthique

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unethical

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consciencieux

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dutiful

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avec raison

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rightly

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à tort

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wrongly

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un défaut

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a fault/a defect/a flaw

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la dépravation

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depravity

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droit

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upright

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la droiture

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uprightness

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équitable

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fair

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l’équité

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fairness

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la franchise

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candour

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franc

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frank/candid

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des scrupules

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scruples

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naïf

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artless/guileless/.naive

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ingénu

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ingenuous

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crédule

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gullible

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pas digne de confiance

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untrustworthy

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compter sur

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to rely on/ to depend on

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fiable/digne de confiance

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reliable/dependable

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un engagement

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a pledge

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s’engager

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to pledge

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fidèle

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faithful

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déloyal

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disloyal

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faire un faux

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to forge

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une erreur

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a fallacy

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fallacieux

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fallacious

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généreux

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generous

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mesquin

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mean

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qui ne se refuse rien

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self-indulgent

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l’altruisme

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altruism/selflessness

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égocentrique

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self-centered

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l’abnégation

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self-denial

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prodigue

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prodigal/prodigality

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avare

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stingy/tight-fisted

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un grippe-sou

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a scrooge

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lésiner sur qqch

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to stint on sthg

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accorder à contrecoeur

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to grudge

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avoir la conscience tranquille

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to have an easy conscience

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avoir bonne conscience

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to have a clear conscience

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avoir mauvaise conscience

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to have a guilty conscience

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soulager

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to relieve

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un cas de conscience

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a matter of conscience

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un accès de remords

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a pang of remorse

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des accès de mauvaise conscience

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pangs of conscience

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ressentir une pointe de culpabilité

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to feel a pang of guilt

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distinguer le bien et le mal

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to know right from wrong

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dire ses quatre vérités à qqn

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to tell sby some home truths

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à la décharge de qqn

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in all fairness to sby

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en toute justice

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in all fairness

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agir dans son propre intérêt

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to act out of self-interest

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avoir qqch sur sa conscience

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to have sthg on one’s conscience

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Il a été aux prises avec sa conscience

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He wrestled with his conscience

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Rien n’est plus loin que la vérité

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Nothing could be further from the truth

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remettre en cause

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to question

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la partialité de l’élection

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the fairness of the election

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A dire vrai

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To be honest

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Laissez-vous guider par votre conscience

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Let conscience be your guide

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Ecouter la voix de sa conscience

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To listen to the voice of conscience

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La vérité finira par triompher

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Truth will out

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La vérité et toute la vérité

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The whole truth and nothing but the truth

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hypocrite

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hypocritical

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dissimuler

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to dissemble

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feindre de

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to feign/to sham

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la dissimulation

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dissembling

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un faux-semblant

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a pretence

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dissimuler

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to conceal

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la dissimulation

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concealment

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déformer

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to twist

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un escroc

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a twister

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louche

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shady/fishy

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fuyant

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shifty

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douteux

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dubious

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retors/sournois

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devious

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sournois

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underhand

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subrepticement

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surreptitiously

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le secret

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secrecy

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cachottier

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secretive

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taire qqch

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to hush up smthg

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astucieux

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artful

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l’habileté

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artfulness

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faux/sournois

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insincere

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la fausseté

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insincerity

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mensonger

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mendacious

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les mensonges

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mendacity

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la ruse

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wile/craft

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rusé

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wily/sly

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malin

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crafty/cunning

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en douce

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on the sly

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un manipulateur

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a schemer

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des intrigues

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scheming

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manipuler

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to cant

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indélicat

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unscrupulous

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un pot-de-vin

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a bribe

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soudoyer

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to bribe

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la corruption

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bribery

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double-dealing

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le double jeu

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berner

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to fool

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induire en erreur

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to mislead

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trompeur

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misleading

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peu fiable

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unreliable

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un bonimenteur

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a humbug

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tromper

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to deceive

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la fourberie

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deceit

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mensonger

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untruthful

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une parjure

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a perjury

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un baratineur

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a smooth talker

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un imposteur

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a fraud

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escroquer qqch à qqn

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to defraud sby of sthg

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la traîtrise

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a treachery

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perfide

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treacherous

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berner

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to hoodwink

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doubler qqn

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to double-cross sby

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se faire passer pour

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to pass oneself off as

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duper

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to trick

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fallacieux

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spurious

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un charlatan

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a phoney/a quack

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un escroc

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a crook

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arnaquer

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to rip off

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une arnaque

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a rip-off

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feindre

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to fein

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