dupery

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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

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

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

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

Cunning, jealousy, perfidy, ingratitude, dupery were the instruments with which he would fashion out a State.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper