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

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

That these things are in contemplation, I have no doubt; nor can I be confident of their failure, after the dupery of which our countrymen have shown themselves susceptible.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

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