Sentence examples for dupery from inspiring English sources
noun
The act or practice of duping; the condition of being deceived.
Adam Smith wrote in the 18th century that trade regulations "may, I think, be demonstrated to be in every case a common piece of dupery, by which the interest of the State and the nation is constantly sacrificed to some particular class of traders".
It showed a group of figures from old art — the men in doublets and in hats with plumes, the women in gowns and wearing feathers in their hair — arranged around a gaming table, the scene obviously derived from one of de La Tour's tense dramas of dupery: and yet not de La Tour, exactly, but a sardonic pastiche of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Italian genre styles.
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.
