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Dupery

noun
1.
Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage.  Synonyms: fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on.






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"Dupery" Quotes from Famous Books



... was builded. They shift and change. They cannot give a foundation of permanency to a State. They were the essence of that chaos out of which he thought to bring order in anarchic Italy, working on them and on them alone. Cunning, jealousy, perfidy, ingratitude, dupery were the instruments with which he would fashion out a State. And he knew that the State so wrought could not last, for he said the world grew no better; what made his State destroyed it, inevitably. Machiavelli ignored charity, which ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann



Words linked to "Dupery" :   chicane, goldbrick, guile, dupe, fraud, chicanery, shenanigan, humbug, put-on, trickery, wile



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