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

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

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

Eventually he came to the conclusion that the Republic was mere dupery.

From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred