different between trickery vs dupery
trickery
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Old French tricherie?”)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /t??.k?.?i/
Noun
trickery (countable and uncountable, plural trickeries)
- (uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
- (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
- (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
- (countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
- 1898, Bret Harte, "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow:
- The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.
- 1898, Bret Harte, "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow:
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:deception
Translations
References
- trickery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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dupery
English
Etymology
dupe +? -ery
Noun
dupery (countable and uncountable, plural duperies)
- The act or practice of duping; the condition of being deceived.
- 1930, "Dishonesty,"Time, 17 Feb,
- Far more widespread than ticket dupery is another form of "misrepresentation" also recently under fire.
- 2003, Joseph P. Fried, "The Duke of Dupery, Still Pulling the Wool," New York Times, 21 Dec, p. 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.
- 1930, "Dishonesty,"Time, 17 Feb,
Synonyms
- deception
- trickery
Related terms
- dupe
References
- dupery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “dupery” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Anagrams
- Duprey
dupery From the web:
- what does dupery mean
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