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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

The whole displays a complete system of dupery, and the agents were graduated.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

The arts of cheatery were long held to be facetious; most of the “Merrie Jests” consist of stultifying fools, or are sharping tricks, practised on the simple children of dupery.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

We ought to understand that this seeming cloud-field was once a reality; that not poetic allegory, least of all that dupery and deception was the origin of it.

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas




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