dupery
Example Sentences
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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 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
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
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