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dupery

[doo-puh-ree, dyoo-] / ˈdu pə ri, ˈdyu- /




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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

In this manner he thrives, and, so long as he remains in the country of his birth his wants are anxiously supplied by the victims of his mother’s dupery.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Cunning, jealousy, perfidy, ingratitude, dupery were the instruments with which he would fashion out a State.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

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




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