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dupery

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dup·er·y  (dp-r, dy-)
n. pl. dup·er·ies
The act of duping or the condition of having been duped.
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Noun1.dupery - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
hoax, put-on, humbug, fraud, fraudulence
chicanery, wile, shenanigan, trickery, guile, chicane - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
goldbrick - anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless


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Dupery for dupery, what proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear?
The "twice-born" by Taylor, Charles McArthur / Cross Currents
When Madame Potonie-Pierre spoke at a women's rights congress in Paris in 1889, she suggested that women lawyers would simply be more honest than men, replacing "our sly and crafty speechifiers, our experts in chicanery and dupery.
PORTIA ANTE PORTAS: WOMEN AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN EUROPE, ca. ... by Albisetti, James C. / Journal of Social History
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