dupery
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Etymology
Noun
dupery (countable and uncountable, plural duperies)
- The act or practice of duping; the condition of being deceived.
- 1840, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 1, in Heroes and Hero Worship:
- Quackery and dupery do abound; in religions, above all in the more advanced decaying stages of religions.
- 1930 February 17, “Dishonesty”, in Time:
- Far more widespread than ticket dupery is another form of "misrepresentation" also recently under fire.
- 2003 December 21, Joseph P. Fried, “The Duke of Dupery, Still Pulling the Wool”, in New York Times, page N51:
- Mr. Abel, who lives in Westport, Conn., has earned his bread as a writer and lecturer on problem-solving tactics, and he has earned a reputation as a duke of dupery since 1959, when he masterminded the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.
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References
- “dupery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “dupery”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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