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dupery

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




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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

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

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

But the fact that they were not due to any external dupery didn't make them a bit pleasanter to see.

From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith

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