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verb djuːpd(j)up [with object]Deceive; trick. the newspaper was duped into publishing an untrue story Example sentencesExamples - The operation was launched after dozens of complaints from members of the public who had been duped into buying poor quality goods.
- Parents are duped into believing that their child will have a better future.
- And the media seem to have realised they've been duped into giving that cheap publicity.
- Police in Wickford are urging residents to be on their guard after an elderly woman was duped into handing over money to bogus callers.
- Now, however, the well has run dry and the same people who were duped into funding the excesses will have to pay for picking up the pieces.
- They are worried that unsuspecting members of the public are being duped into buying the killer substances for them and catching traders unaware.
- Also when you are in a vulnerable state you can be duped into acting out of character in order to appease your new best friends.
- Customers were duped into paying fees up-front in the belief that their business rates would be reduced or their money refunded.
- Do you consider this period in history a downtime, or have we just been duped into thinking so?
- An elderly Swindon woman has narrowly escaped being duped into sending money to a dubious get-rich-quick scheme.
- Staff working at the store were duped into clearing up a smashed bottle of vinegar while one of the thieves walked into an open office and swiped wads of cash.
- How many of you mums out there have been duped into thinking you're going to get a free pass for at least one of your children to use during the holidays and got told the same?
- Yet thousands of low-income and not-so-low-income people have been duped into putting their modest savings into these funds.
- Yet he and his family claim they have evidence that he was duped into joining a heroin smuggling role which they cannot persuade a Bangkok court to hear.
- Shoppers are being duped into handing over thousands of pounds by to a gang of street vendors who claim to be collecting money for children's wheelchairs.
- Everyone will have the right to continue to collect their benefit weekly so do not be duped into losing your local post office.
- His family claim he and other military personnel were duped into taking part in what they believed were harmless experiments.
- They're being duped into believing that what they're doing is solid.
- This did not mean the united front was a trick to dupe workers into joining the Communist parties.
- I'd give this CD away to charity, but then of course, some sucker would be duped into paying for it.
Synonyms deceive, trick, hoodwink, hoax, swindle, defraud, cheat, double-cross, gull, mislead, take in, fool, delude, misguide, lead on, inveigle, seduce, ensnare, entrap, beguile informal con, do, sting, gyp, rip off, diddle, swizzle, shaft, bilk, rook, bamboozle, finagle, pull the wool over someone's eyes, pull someone's leg, pull a fast one on, put one over on, sell a pup to, take to the cleaners North American informal sucker, snooker, stiff, euchre, bunco, hornswoggle Australian informal pull a swifty on archaic cozen, sharp rare mulct
noun djuːpd(j)up A victim of deception. men who were simply the dupes of their unscrupulous leaders Example sentencesExamples - Now, obviously these observers were simply dupes, and I admire his perspicacity in seeing straight through them.
- In their time, the inspectors have been called many things: spies, pawns, dupes.
- In a sense these ignorant dupes are as much victims of the terrorists as their targets are.
- The investment of personal, political and moral identity that this represents is so immense that after a short while such gullible dupes are simply incapable of recognising reality even when it stares them in the face.
- Many of the shamans, mystics and magic men doing their tricks and fooling countless dupes are using old magician's tricks - they simply aren't admitting that they're tricks.
- Leavers have been considered victims or dupes enticed by railroad propaganda, speculators out to make a buck, or incompetents without experience or knowledge of farming.
- But they were neither victims nor dupes, as some historians have suggested.
- Essentially it was one of being an innocent dupe.
- Company managements may be innocent dupes of rogue employees, it is also added, by local sources.
- They believe that people who think otherwise are, at best, the innocent dupes of Satan.
- In this way, one would see the characters not only as simple dupes, but one would recognize his or her own potential to be duped, the latter point being made even more emphatically for the first-time viewer of the play.
- If this is true then it seems that Christianity is simply an illusion, and those who believe it, dupes.
- It is the simplest scam in the world and accounts for 20 pc of all internet fraud, taking millions of pounds from innocent dupes.
- Never mind that he seemed more like an innocent dupe entrapped by the intelligence services of Russia, Britain, and the U.S. The case against him has never been brought to trial, so we'll never know.
- We are fond of dismissing the participants as dupes, but we are the bigger fools for believing that the shows represent some kind of truth.
- Far from responding like innocent dupes, we armed ourselves with wariness.
- And it has a slightly ugly tendency to treat those who might actually enjoy going to museums as innocent dupes.
- The consumer may also be a dupe, the victim of exploitation by powerful interests.
- African Canadian females bringing cocaine into Canada concealed in luggage, acquitted as unknowing dupes of others, also appear before these courts in numbers disproportionate to their percentage in the general population.
- Sadly, leftists believe defending media violence makes them hip crusaders for freedom; no, it only it makes them pawns, dupes, slaves.
Synonyms victim, gull, pawn, puppet, instrument fool, simpleton, innocent informal sucker, stooge, sitting duck, sitting target, soft touch, pushover, chump, muggins, charlie, fall guy British informal mug North American informal pigeon, patsy, sap, schlemiel, mark Australian/New Zealand informal dill British informal, dated juggins
Derivatives adjective ˈdjuːpəb(ə)lˈd(j)upəb(ə)l Crop circles are formed by mischievous human beings who dupe the easily dupable into believing there is some extra-natural or supernatural cause. Example sentencesExamples - You expect twists in the plot, not too hard to get your head around, and you expect some nasty villains along with some dupable cops and lovable rogues.
- He also thought that it humiliated a man's pride to be told that he was dupable.
- As more people recognize that they do have a choice, that they don't need to own a car to get around town, you'll find yourself covering the auto industry's desperate attempts to find a more dupable market.
- As many of us have come to understand, there are few creatures more easily dupable than a western intellectual desperate to demonstrate his tolerance for some foreign nonsense.
noun ˈdʒuːpəˈd(j)upər A person who deceives or tricks someone. Example sentencesExamples - If the audience guess right then they get £10,000 shared amongst them; if they guess wrong the successful duper gets all the money for himself.
- So it caught the dupers and is still running a deflationary strategy to squeeze excess money out of the game's economy.
- For, they are the ‘dupers’ of our hopes and beliefs.
noun ˈduːpəriˈd(j)up(ə)ri We prefer other explanations for political wrongdoing that will not reveal our dupery. Example sentencesExamples - What proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear?
- Some of the editors continued to take his hoax essay at face value even after he had revealed his dupery.
- Let us agree, however, that wherever there is no forced option, the dispassionately judicial intellect with no pet hypothesis, saving us, as it does, from dupery at any rate, ought to be our ideal.
- The imputations of irreligion having spent their force; they think an imputation of change might now be turned to account as a holster for their duperies.
Origin Late 17th century: from dialect French dupe 'hoopoe', from the bird's supposedly stupid appearance. Rhymes bloop, cock-a-hoop, coop, croup, droop, drupe, goop, group, Guadeloupe, hoop, loop, poop, recoup, roup, scoop, sloop, snoop, soup, stoep, stoop, stoup, stupe, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop noun & verb djuːp as verb how to dupe 35 mm slides on to 35 mm film short for duplicate, especially in photography as noun black-and-white dupes Example sentencesExamples - How about burning a mixed CD of the wackiest, weirdest songs of all time, then duping it and giving copies to all your friends?
- During the fights in the film, he had taken risks in doing all the stunts on his own, without the use of a dupe or a body double.
- You could dupe however many copies you wanted, right?
verbd(j)upd(y)o͞op [with object]Deceive; trick. the newspaper was duped into publishing an untrue story Example sentencesExamples - Shoppers are being duped into handing over thousands of pounds by to a gang of street vendors who claim to be collecting money for children's wheelchairs.
- His family claim he and other military personnel were duped into taking part in what they believed were harmless experiments.
- Yet thousands of low-income and not-so-low-income people have been duped into putting their modest savings into these funds.
- Do you consider this period in history a downtime, or have we just been duped into thinking so?
- An elderly Swindon woman has narrowly escaped being duped into sending money to a dubious get-rich-quick scheme.
- Now, however, the well has run dry and the same people who were duped into funding the excesses will have to pay for picking up the pieces.
- Parents are duped into believing that their child will have a better future.
- They're being duped into believing that what they're doing is solid.
- Everyone will have the right to continue to collect their benefit weekly so do not be duped into losing your local post office.
- This did not mean the united front was a trick to dupe workers into joining the Communist parties.
- The operation was launched after dozens of complaints from members of the public who had been duped into buying poor quality goods.
- I'd give this CD away to charity, but then of course, some sucker would be duped into paying for it.
- And the media seem to have realised they've been duped into giving that cheap publicity.
- Staff working at the store were duped into clearing up a smashed bottle of vinegar while one of the thieves walked into an open office and swiped wads of cash.
- Police in Wickford are urging residents to be on their guard after an elderly woman was duped into handing over money to bogus callers.
- Yet he and his family claim they have evidence that he was duped into joining a heroin smuggling role which they cannot persuade a Bangkok court to hear.
- They are worried that unsuspecting members of the public are being duped into buying the killer substances for them and catching traders unaware.
- How many of you mums out there have been duped into thinking you're going to get a free pass for at least one of your children to use during the holidays and got told the same?
- Also when you are in a vulnerable state you can be duped into acting out of character in order to appease your new best friends.
- Customers were duped into paying fees up-front in the belief that their business rates would be reduced or their money refunded.
Synonyms deceive, trick, hoodwink, hoax, swindle, defraud, cheat, double-cross, gull, mislead, take in, fool, delude, misguide, lead on, inveigle, seduce, ensnare, entrap, beguile
nound(j)upd(y)o͞op A victim of deception. knowing accomplices or unknowing dupes Example sentencesExamples - The consumer may also be a dupe, the victim of exploitation by powerful interests.
- Many of the shamans, mystics and magic men doing their tricks and fooling countless dupes are using old magician's tricks - they simply aren't admitting that they're tricks.
- Never mind that he seemed more like an innocent dupe entrapped by the intelligence services of Russia, Britain, and the U.S. The case against him has never been brought to trial, so we'll never know.
- They believe that people who think otherwise are, at best, the innocent dupes of Satan.
- In their time, the inspectors have been called many things: spies, pawns, dupes.
- In this way, one would see the characters not only as simple dupes, but one would recognize his or her own potential to be duped, the latter point being made even more emphatically for the first-time viewer of the play.
- It is the simplest scam in the world and accounts for 20 pc of all internet fraud, taking millions of pounds from innocent dupes.
- We are fond of dismissing the participants as dupes, but we are the bigger fools for believing that the shows represent some kind of truth.
- The investment of personal, political and moral identity that this represents is so immense that after a short while such gullible dupes are simply incapable of recognising reality even when it stares them in the face.
- Far from responding like innocent dupes, we armed ourselves with wariness.
- African Canadian females bringing cocaine into Canada concealed in luggage, acquitted as unknowing dupes of others, also appear before these courts in numbers disproportionate to their percentage in the general population.
- Now, obviously these observers were simply dupes, and I admire his perspicacity in seeing straight through them.
- Essentially it was one of being an innocent dupe.
- If this is true then it seems that Christianity is simply an illusion, and those who believe it, dupes.
- In a sense these ignorant dupes are as much victims of the terrorists as their targets are.
- But they were neither victims nor dupes, as some historians have suggested.
- Leavers have been considered victims or dupes enticed by railroad propaganda, speculators out to make a buck, or incompetents without experience or knowledge of farming.
- And it has a slightly ugly tendency to treat those who might actually enjoy going to museums as innocent dupes.
- Company managements may be innocent dupes of rogue employees, it is also added, by local sources.
- Sadly, leftists believe defending media violence makes them hip crusaders for freedom; no, it only it makes them pawns, dupes, slaves.
Synonyms victim, gull, pawn, puppet, instrument
Origin Late 17th century: from dialect French dupe ‘hoopoe’, from the bird's supposedly stupid appearance. verb & nound(j)upd(y)o͞op as verb how to dupe 35 mm slides on to 35 mm film short for duplicate, especially in photography as noun black-and-white dupes Example sentencesExamples - You could dupe however many copies you wanted, right?
- During the fights in the film, he had taken risks in doing all the stunts on his own, without the use of a dupe or a body double.
- How about burning a mixed CD of the wackiest, weirdest songs of all time, then duping it and giving copies to all your friends?
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