(n.) One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.
(n.) To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(2) 4.13am GMT 49ers 38 - Packers 24, 4:13 4th quarter On 4th & 1 on the GB 18, Kaepernick dupes the Packer line into jumping offsides...and they do!
(3) Vengeance and the wish to punish are understandable reactions to feeling duped and fooled.
(4) Years earlier, she had duped him into bankrolling her travels.
(5) She is very hurt that he duped her about who he was.
(6) Just hours after her admission, two Australian radio DJs impersonating the Queen and Prince of Wales duped hospital staff into divulging intimate medical details.
(7) Women are always "vulnerable" dupes, never simply adults who have made decisions.
(8) Duped by Mexico’s mafia: Guatemalan couple fall victim to border gang Read more After four years of fruitless appeals she entered the church on 7 August to escape a final deportation order that took effect the following day.
(9) A central question will be whether those smuggled were trafficked against their will or were duped into entering the UK illegally, possibly with the offer of a nonexistent job.
(10) He thinks the question of whether HP's shareholders were "duped" is irrelevant; Meg Whitman, the current chief executive, was one of those who approved the purchase as a director: "The management and directors of HPQ do not have what it takes to turn this company around.
(11) The trade-off is that she got the comfort, but others may now be duped,” he added.
(12) Veloso has consistently insisted she was duped into carrying 2.6kg of heroin into Indonesia.
(13) Physicians need to know how to avoid becoming duped, dated, impaired or "script doctors."
(14) "Heightened [military] pressure forced the LRA to try [its] time-tested tricks of buying time by duping the CAR authorities into 'negotiations' to purportedly allow Kony and his LRA to 'surrender' and resettle in Nzako, CAR," he said.
(15) Does he believe they did a good job, or does he share Brian Binley's fears that they were duped by City investors?
(16) Albany MP Peter Watson was particularly scathing, saying those who had encouraged Smith had “duped him” into thinking he had the numbers to succeed.
(17) The Australian made the most of the contact, collapsing in false agony - and then the aggressor tried to dupe the referee by doing the same.
(18) Ward said CTL's vetting procedures had been consistent with local standards, but that no amount of screening could ensure that firms won't be "duped by dishonest clients".
(19) Jackson said his sense the audience did not feel duped was supported by a "99.9% positive" response on Facebook and Twitter.
(20) Admittedly, this is one of the film's funnier parts, but it also dupes its female lead to an uncomfortable degree, a trend that continues throughout.
Fleece
Definition:
(n.) The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
(n.) Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
(n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
(v. t.) To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
(v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
(v. t.) To spread over as with wool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(2) However, collagen fleece patches were only 8 cm X 4 cm in size and should be available in larger dimensions, particularly when it comes to larger sealing areas.
(3) After four months the treated male alpacas gained on average 3.1 kg more than the untreated males, and their fleece weighed 0.36 kg more.
(4) Meconium was present on the fleece of 114 newborn lambs in sixty-two per cent of the cases.
(5) At the group application of a granulated formula the fleece in some animals was removed hardly on the 11th-15th day, and with one sheep and 3 weaned lambs shearing was effected mechanically.
(6) has been saying for years - that credit card companies have been fleecing their customers with unfair, sky high credit card charges.
(7) Immunization to provoke a persistent anti-melatonin antibody response at the winter solstice resulted in significantly increased greasy fleece weight, % cashmere yield, and mass of cashmere produced, but no change in fibre diameter in both sexes.
(8) He is less concerned with the legal debate than he is with the fact that western firms are being fleeced by shadowy cyber-crooks half a world away.
(9) In a flock of sheep of different genetic background not selected for resistance or susceptibility to fleece rot and fly strike, positive phenotypic correlations were also noted between fleece rot and plasma leakage.
(10) Hardening off in a cold frame or under fleece will take about two weeks; by that time, any fear of frost should have passed.
(11) Meanwhile in September 2014 we told how Barclays “has been accused by victims of fraud of loose security procedures which have enabled international crooks to open accounts with foreign passports and then use them to fleece individuals online”.Victims who have contacted Money this week include: • A judge and his wife living in the north of England who have lost £5,040.
(12) I work in the freezer department so the cold doesn't affect me so much," he says, and laughs, but his son complains about their refusal to put the radiator on in his room; they bought him a fleece to wear in bed.
(13) Its widely trumpeted “success” is built on turning a blind eye to quasi-criminality in investment banking and to systemic fleecing of ignorant customers in the asset management industry through an opaque and self-serving fee structure.
(14) It's almost as if I watched old Jethro Tull at the cash machine and leaned over his shoulder as he put his credit card into the machine to check out his PIN and filched his credit card form from his back pocket as he walked away and then fleeced his bank account."
(15) The gene for white fleece (W), therefore, appears able to regulate pigmentation in Merino sheep, at least in part, by controlling the location and activity of melanocytes within the wool-bearing skin.
(16) I put on a pair of jogging bottoms, an old fleece hoodie and some flip-flops over my socks.
(17) Perhaps inevitably, there are also artful dodgers looking to fleece tourists of $100 (£64) to pass the gate.
(18) The genetic correlations between ewe productivity and weights at different ages were variable, ranging from -.71 between weaning weight and grease fleece weight to values greater than 1.00 for correlations between weight of lambs weaned and weights at birth, weaning and 18-mo.
(19) A human-collagen fleece (Beristypt) is now available for the first time.
(20) Four years into the credit crunch, it has become mainstream to distinguish between the important functions of banking and those things that the Financial Services Authority chair, Adair Turner, brands as "socially useless" : activities that involve someone getting rich by fleecing someone else, and leaving the taxpayer to pick up the pieces.