(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.
Pigeon
Definition:
(n.) Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.
(n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.
(v. t.) To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the characteristics of pigeon atherosclerosis at other vascular sites have not been extensively studied.
(2) There are thus clear similarities in the overall pattern of somatosensory projections in the pigeon and in many mammalian species.
(3) The behavioral effects of phenytoin, phenobarbital, clonazepam, valproic acid, and ethosuximide were evaluated in food-deprived pigeons performing under automaintenance and negative automaintenance procedures.
(4) The pigeon's metapatagialis muscle consists of three slips, two twitch and one tonic, and these slips are distinguishable at the gross anatomical level.
(5) The gain of anterior SC primary afferents at 0.25 Hz is similar for anesthetized (2.93 I X s-1 X deg-1 X s-1, n = 14) (11) and for unanesthetized (3.01 I X s-1 X deg-1 X s-1, n = 14) pigeons.
(6) A series of seven experiments related amplitude and latency of the pigeon's startle response, elicited by an intense visual stimulus, to antecedent auditory and visual events in the sensory environment.
(7) Immunohistochemical techniques were used to survey the distribution of several conventional transmitters, receptors, and neuropeptides in the pigeon nucleus of the basal optic root (nBOR), a component of the accessory optic system.
(8) Immunoglobulin G (IgG), A (IgA) and M (IgM) antibody activity against pigeon serum was demonstrated in the patient's serum by a solid phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) technic.
(9) The activities of choline acetyltransferase and acetylcholinesterase were assayed in submicrogram samples from layers of pigeon retina.
(10) Erythrocytes from pigeons and 1-day-old chicks gave similar antigen and antibody titers, but goose erythrocytes gave lower titers.
(11) But my timid scrunch-face puts me so behind the curve that I might as well start training carrier pigeons.
(12) The serratus metapatagialis (SMP) muscle of the pigeon has been studied histochemically and ultrastructurally.
(13) Pigeon Type I horizontal cells are Cajal's "brush-shaped" cells, and their axon terminals resemble Cajal's "stellate" cells.
(14) The mechanism of pyruvate-2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol (2,6-CPI) reductase reaction catalyzed by the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex from pigeon breast muscle and by its pyruvate dehydrogenase component was studied.
(15) Most of the time when we talk about pollution people think about Beijing or other places, but there are some days in the year when pollution was higher and more toxic in London than Beijing, that’s the reality.” He said he was inspired by the use of pigeons in the first and second world wars to deliver information and save lives, but they were also a practical way of taking mobile air quality readings and beating London’s congested roads.
(16) The local pigeon crop-sac assay was used to test the direct effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and several other growth factors and hormones on the growth of mucosal epithelial cells in vivo.
(17) Nine pigeons in a matching-to-sample task with 5 alternative stimuli were exposed to 4 dose levels of sodium pentobarbital.
(18) In pigeon liver, only purine nucleoside phosphorylase was increased but xanthine dehydrogenase activity was not detected after feeding a high protein diet, while both enzyme activities were increased in the pigeon kidney.
(19) The authors report an epizootic form of toxoplasmosis observed among the crowned pigeons (Goura cristata Pallas and Goura victoria Frazer).
(20) Pigeons are able to home from unfamiliar sites because they acquire an olfactory map extending beyond the area they have flown over.