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 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