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Dupery See also Gullibility Blake, Franklin doped with laudanum, he is an unconscious accessory to the theft of the moonstone. [Br. Lit.: The Moon-stone in Magill I, 263] town squires bamboozled by inspector-impostor. [Russ. Lit.: The Inspector General] tricked into financing and approving daughters’ marriages. [Ger. Opera: Haydn, The World of the Moon, Westerman, 68–69] duped by friends into believing heliotrope confers invisibility. [It. Lit.: Decameron, “Calandrino and the Heliotrope”] lawyer’s clerk; swindled into believing himself perfect gambler. [Br. Lit.: The Alchemist] cozened by rogues in hopes of future riches. [Br. Lit.: The Alchemist] mute beauty tricked, imprisoned, and abandoned by Alfonso. [Fr. Opera: Auber, Dumb Girl of Portici, Westerman, 163–164] dupes Othello, Cassio, et al. [Br. Lit.: Othello] “the town gull.” [Br. Lit.: Every Man in His Humour] used by Ettarre; betrayed by Gawain. [Br. Lit.: Idylls of the King, “Pelleas and Ettarre”]
foppish dupe and tool of Iago. [Br. Lit.: Othello] prefect kowtows to supposed inspector for good impression. [Russ. Lit.: The Inspector General] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Dupery for dupery, what proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear? When Madame Potonie-Pierre spoke at a women's rights congress in Paris in 1889, she suggested that women lawyers would simply be more honest than men, replacing "our sly and crafty speechifiers, our experts in chicanery and dupery. |
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