dupery
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Far more widespread than ticket dupery is another form of "misrepresentation" also recently under fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
It could be a game of dupery, with neither side trusting the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
The character of the nation will become, like its swords, at once bright, sharp, and solid; the reign of corruption is gone already, the reign of dupery cannot long survive.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various
This taste for dupery was carried down to a much later period; for the “Merrie conceited jests of George Peele,” and of Tarleton, are chiefly tricks of sharpers.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
But this event, honourable as it is to the Duke M. de Montmorency, completely disproves the charge of dupery brought against us.
From Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 by Jones, Edgar R. (Edgar Rees), Sir
