0 present participle of double-cross
1 to deceive someone by working only for your own advantage in the (usually illegal) activities you have planned together:
The criticism of putting on an act is finally spelled out as 'double-crossing', again coupled to a sensuous impression (crossed 'heels' - a synecdoche for 'legs'?).
What is behind all this procrastination, this evasion, this double-crossing, double-dealing and sheer skulduggery we have had to put up this?
Dispensers have done that on the pretext of helping deaf people, which is a prime example of double-talking, double-dealing and double-crossing.
When it comes to compensation there is meticulous dotting of i's and crossing of t's—or double-crossing.
I fortunately have no responsibility and no knowledge of suspicions about double-crossing.
I ask the committee to notice the bit about double-crossing.
I heard everything else he said—phrases like "shameful", "double-crossing", "breaking faith", "ashamed".
It has always been a parrot cry adopted by people attempting to evade the responsibility for their own double-crossing actions.