What's the difference between dupe and patsy?

Dupe


Definition:

  • (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.

Patsy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Patsy Byrne, actor, born 13 July 1933; died 17 June 2014
  • (2) Then, in 1963, driving to attend a memorial service for Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, country stars who had died in a plane crash, Anglin was killed in a car accident.
  • (3) They then swung across to Louisiana, where they gunned down convenience-store cashier Patsy Byers, paralysing her from the neck down.
  • (4) The visiting captain left his best to the closing moments of the half when a juggling act left Leon Osman and Sylvain Distin the patsies in a move that finished with Lallana's volley missing by inches.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bowie with, Patsy Kensit and Eddie O’Connell in Absolute Beginners in 1986.
  • (6) The use of a potential proxy to drive a bomb to a security force base will bring back memories in Derry of the 1990 murder of Catholic contractor Patsy Gillespie.
  • (7) Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live earlier today, Yentob added: "If you're negotiating with someone else as well you feel a bit of a patsy if you're sitting down so we stopped and said, 'Do you want to come?'
  • (8) But I remembered something: in the late 80s, Patsy and I were at a very, very glamorous evening in Hollywood to celebrate a very, very important Hollywood star, and you were the emcee for the evening.
  • (9) Tim Jonze When You Need a Laugh – Patsy Cline Songs I've heard at dawn return to make me cry in daylight, however saccharine and bloated ( Kelly Clarkson's Because of You , please be kind).
  • (10) Patsy Baker, a partner from Bell Pottinger is also listed on the documents as sitting on another table.
  • (11) Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool overpowered Manchester City with intensity | Michael Cox Read more This victory over City was a triumph for Klopp’s gegenpressing ethos – the quick switch from attack to a high press – as City were cast as hapless patsies who made countless errors and gave up possession cheaply.
  • (12) Perhaps his violent obsession with blondes had its roots in an incident at the age of 12, when his blonde girlfriend Patsy Morris, 14, was found strangled on Hounslow Heath.
  • (13) Meanwhile Alderman, when he succeeded Wardle at the SFO, insisted he was no patsy.
  • (14) Patsy Bivins, 68, a retired waitress from Sturgiss, Kentucky, is one of hundreds or even thousands who have been warned to look out for the tell-tale symptoms of a splitting headache, fever, stiff neck, difficulty walking or worsening back pain.
  • (15) While there are many holes in Pyne’s denial and the uncomfortably eroding rebuttal from Abbott, there were just as many questions left unanswered by the relatively patsy interview on 60 Minutes.
  • (16) LP: Last autumn, I worked with Unicef and Patsy and I were in Hanoi for the first time.
  • (17) His refusal to sign a petition calling for the release of the imprisoned Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo led to him being dismissed by Salman Rushdie as a "patsy of the regime" , while his fellow Nobel laureate Herta Müller called his win " a slap in the face for all those working for democracy and human rights ".
  • (18) The new attorney general, appointed in controversial circumstances last December, is seen by the opposition as a Brotherhood patsy.
  • (19) Clegg had been prepared for attacks by Labour that he has turned into a Tory patsy, but he is insistent he has ensured the budget has not followed the path of most previous fiscal consolidations by hitting the poor hardest.
  • (20) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.