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DUPERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dupery mean? 

DUPERY (noun)
  The noun DUPERY has 1 sense:

1. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantageplay

  Familiarity information: DUPERY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DUPERY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dupery; fraud; fraudulence; hoax; humbug; put-on

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)


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