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duped
1[ doopt, dyoopt ]
adjective
- deceived, fooled, or tricked:
There are no duped people in this sequence of events, only those who have chosen to remain willfully ignorant.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of dupe 1( def ).
duped
2[ doopt, dyoopt ]
adjective
- (especially of recorded sound or images) duplicated.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of dupe 2( def ).
Example Sentences
Mr Agyemang-Prempeh's defence, when challenged by the BBC, was that he had himself been duped by other agents and did not realise he was selling fake CoS documents.
Hundreds of people were duped into ploughing their life savings and pensions into casks that were overpriced or did not exist, while some individual casks were sold multiple times to different investors.
A woman who duped a man into believing they were having twins, until her fake baby bump was exposed in a hospital scan, has been jailed and given a restraining order.
Both the taxi operator and driver Mohammad Amowar were "innocent parties and as much duped as the complainant".
The Murdochs’ and Fox’s lies about the election contributed to the Jan. 6 insurrection in the Capitol and duped millions of Americans into believing that the election was stolen.
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Related 51Թs
- misinterpreting
- misjudging
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