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

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

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

The character of the nation will become, like its swords, at once bright, sharp, and solid; the reign of corruption is gone already, the reign of dupery cannot long survive.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

This taste for dupery was carried down to a much later period; for the “Merrie conceited jests of George Peele,” and of Tarleton, are chiefly tricks of sharpers.

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