DUPERY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)