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supercherie

UK/suːˌpɛ(ɹ)ʃəˈɹiː/

supercherie noun: foul play; an attack made by deceit.

Noun

supercherie (countable and uncountable, plural supercheries)

  1. (obsolete) Foul play; an attack made by deceit.
    • it is a Superchiery,[…] as being wel armed, to charge a man who hath but a piece of a sword, or being sound and strong, to set upon a man sore hurt.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. Deception, deceit; an instance of fraud.
    • We[…]should certainly deny to any teacher of morals, in any age, who resorted to such ‘supercherie’ and charlatanism, any very high place among the instructors and benefactors of mankind.1863, Henry Rogers, Critique on M. Renan's Vie de Jésus
    • According to France's foreign minister, the British foreign secretary is guilty of perpetrating a supercherie.2005 June 23, Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian

supercherie meaning in Bengali

supercherie in Bengali

ফাউল প্লে, প্রতারণার মাধ্যমে করা আক্রমণ, প্রতারণা, ছলনা, জালিয়াতির একটি উদাহরণ

Forms of supercherie

pluralsupercheries
alternative formsuperchery
alternative formsuperchiery

Origin of supercherie

Borrowed from Middle French supercherie, itself borrowed from Italian soperchieria.

Questions about supercherie

What does supercherie mean?
Supercherie means foul play; an attack made by deceit.
What is supercherie in Bengali?
Supercherie in Bengali is ফাউল প্লে, প্রতারণার মাধ্যমে করা আক্রমণ, প্রতারণা. See Supercherie meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is supercherie?
Supercherie is a noun.
How do you pronounce supercherie?
Supercherie is pronounced /suːˌpɛ(ɹ)ʃəˈɹiː/ (UK).
What is the plural of supercherie?
The plural of supercherie is supercheries.

Words near supercherie in the dictionary

  1. superchatting
  2. supercheap
  3. superchef
  4. superchefs
  5. superchemical
  6. supercherie
  7. supercheries
  8. superchery
  9. superchiasmatic
  10. superchiasmic
  11. superchic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supercherie (page history and authors); supercherie (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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