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

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

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