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
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 Sir Edgar R. (Edgar Rees) Jones
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
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 Thomas Carlyle
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
