dupery
Example Sentences
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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 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
How much of the exaggerated information on the then new divorce laws which Beaucock imparted to his listener was the result of ignorance, and how much of dupery, was never ascertained.
From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas
The whole displays a complete system of dupery, and the agents were graduated.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac
