dupery
Example Sentences
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It could be a game of dupery, with neither side trusting the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far more widespread than ticket dupery is another form of "misrepresentation" also recently under fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
That these things are in contemplation, I have no doubt; nor can I be confident of their failure, after the dupery of which our countrymen have shown themselves susceptible.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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
Dupery for dupery, what proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear?
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
