dupery

English

Etymology

dupe +‎ -ery

Noun

dupery (countable and uncountable, plural duperies)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• deception
• trickery

Related terms

• dupe

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.

Anagrams

• Duprey