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dupable, a.|ˈdjuːpəb(ə)l|
Also dupeable.
[f. dupe v.1 + -able.]
Capable of being duped; gullible. Also as n. Hence dupaˈbility, gullibility.
1833Carlyle Cagliostro Misc. Ess. 1872 V. 104 That same blubbery oiliness..the very gift of a fluent public speaker to Dupeables. Ibid. 122 Some boiling muddle⁓heads of the dupeable sort. 1835Southey Doctor lxxxvii. III. 119 Man is a dupeable animal. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 366 Napoleon..believed too much in the Dupeability of men. 1856R. S. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. viii. ix. 99 Behold that grand Magnet for all the loose and dupable social particles in every class and country. |