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DUPERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
Synonyms:
dupery; fraud; fraudulence; hoax; humbug; put-on
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dupery" is a kind of...):
chicane; chicanery; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile (the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dupery"):
goldbrick (anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless)
Derivation:
dupe (fool or hoax)
