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dupery

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




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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

Eventually he came to the conclusion that the Republic was mere dupery.

From The Fortune of the Rougons by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

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 William James

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

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli

In this State, a few persons were deluded by the X. Y. Z. duperies.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph




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