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dupery

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Synonyms & Antonyms of dupery

the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery

a bank facing accusations of widespread dupery in the mortgage business

Synonyms for dupery

artifice,
cheating,
cozenage,
craft,
craftiness,
crookedness,
crookery,
cunning,
cunningness,
deceit,
deceitfulness,
deception,
deceptiveness,
dishonesty,
dissembling,
dissimulation,
double-dealing,
duplicity,
fakery,
foxiness,
fraud,
guile,
guilefulness,
wiliness

Words Related to dupery

equivocation,
lying,
mendacity,
prevarication

chicane,
chicanery,
fraudulence,
hanky-panky,
jugglery,
legerdemain,
mountebankery,
obliquity,
skulduggery
(or skullduggery),
subterfuge,
swindling,
trickery,
wile

falsehood,
falsity,
fib,
untruth

hypocrisy,
insincerity,
sanctimoniousness,
two-facedness

artfulness,
caginess
(also cageyness),
deviousness,
shrewdness

treacherousness,
underhandedness,
unscrupulousness

covertness,
furtiveness,
secrecy,
shadiness,
sneakiness,
stealthiness

oiliness,
shiftiness,
slickness,
slipperiness,
slyness,
smoothness

Near Antonyms for dupery

candidness,
candor,
directness,
frankness,
openness,
plainness,
plainspokenness

honesty,
probity

dependability,
reliability,
reliableness,
solidity,
trustability,
trustiness,
trustworthiness

decency,
goodness,
incorruptibility,
integrity,
righteousness,
truthfulness,
uprightness,
virtuousness

Antonyms for dupery

artlessness,
forthrightness,
good faith,
guilelessness,
ingenuousness,
sincerity

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“Dupery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dupery. Accessed 24 Oct. 2021.

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The first known use of dupery was in 1759

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