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Etymology
Origin of dupery
From the French word duperie, dating back to 1750–60. See dupe 1, -ery
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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
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 Thomas Hardy
The whole displays a complete system of dupery, and the agents were graduated.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
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 Edith Wharton
In this State, a few persons were deluded by the X. Y. Z. duperies.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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