duncery

The only thing remarkable about the exchange is McCain's feigned linguistic duncery.

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He is a great discomforter of young students, by telling them what travel it has cost him, and how often his brain turned at philosophy, and makes others fear studying as a cause of duncery.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

I believe it will take generations to get over the duncery of slavery.

Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted. 1892

Milton was kept from politics in his youth, not by any notion of their incompatibility with poetry; but by the more cogent arguments at their command “under whose inquisitious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish.”

Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890

Milton was kept from politics in his youth, not by any notion of their incompatibility with poetry; but by the more cogent arguments at their command "under whose inquisitious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish."

Life of John Milton Richard Garnett 1870

Such abuse of language is possible only to the drivelling desperation of venomous or fangless duncery: it is in higher and graver matters, of wider bearing and of deeper import, that we find it necessary to dispute the apparently serious propositions or assertions of Mr. Whistler.

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies James McNeill Whistler 1868

Milton had postponed his poem, in 1641, till "the land had once enfranchished herself from this impertinent yoke of prelatry, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish."

Milton Mark Pattison 1848

People with a political grudge couldn’t stop themselves from hyping it into something sinister or, at best, evidence of duncery.

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