Noun

(duperies)

The act or practice of duping; the condition of being deceived.

*1840 , , Heroes and Hero Worship , ch 1,

*:Quackery and dupery do abound; in religions, above all in the more advanced decaying stages of religions.

*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.

Noun

(en noun)

Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

* Alexander Pope

If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.

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The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

A person who performs any such trick.

(obsolete) A trap or snare.

* Milton

to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud