dupery
Example Sentences
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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
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
In this manner he thrives, and, so long as he remains in the country of his birth his wants are anxiously supplied by the victims of his mother’s dupery.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
