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NOUN
  1. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

How To Use dupery In A Sentence

  • Rebecca turns to deception in order to correct her husband's blindness -- more metaphorical than literal -- and give the blessing to its more deserving recipient, Jacob, whom she now ropes into the dupery. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Deception And Desire: An Overview Of Genesis
  • 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. The Woodlanders
  • Famous families are not immune to dupery, however. How To Start A Ponzi Scheme
  • Prog blogs is no doubt over flowing with tales of how Iggy is the superior choice, a statesman, a man of the people, a Canadian full of Canadian Canadianishness with just a dash of leaderific super dupery to boot. We get letters.
  • Never would she have conceived that dupery could be this easy. Almost a Whisper
  • It was to make faith come; but no delights descended from the heavens, and she arose with tired limbs and with a vague feeling of a gigantic dupery. Madame Bovary
  • Along the way, however, he points out that the great strength of English departments in universities was that, while being 'vulnerable to charlatanism and dupery' you can say that again, they were also 'the last great repository for the nonutilitarian hopes of the university.' Literary theory is dead, hurrah! Or is it boo?
  • RL dupery is not necessarily the path of least resistance. Lies, Heists, and Social Emergence
  • What proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear?
  • Let us agree, however, that wherever there is no forced option, the dispassionately judicial intellect with no pet hypothesis, saving us, as it does, from dupery at any rate, ought to be our ideal.
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