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duped
adjective as in cheated
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Weak matches
adjective as in deceived
Strong matches
- baited
- bamboozled
- betrayed
- conned
- culled
- fooled
- gulled
- had
- hoaxed
- hoodwinked
- lured
- played
- snared
- taken
- trapped
- victimized
adjective as in deluded
adjective as in fooled
adjective as in mistaken
Strongest matches
- confounded
- confused
- deceived
- deluded
- fooled
- misguided
- misinformed
- misinterpreting
- misjudging
- misled
- tricked
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Example Sentences
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.
They duped the woman, a cancer survivor, into sending the purported Pitt her life’s savings, including a divorce settlement from her marriage to a wealthy entrepreneur.
His brief disappearance has only exposed how common the danger has become: others in the Chinese film industry have since shared their own accounts of being duped by scammers offering them jobs in Thailand.
That’s what happens — whole families are taken in and they feel so much shame around having been duped.
The two ex-Mossad agents told US CBS News how the service duped Hezbollah into buying thousands of rigged walkie-talkies and pagers without realising they were made in Israel.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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