patsy

Example Sentences

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Getting rid of Notre Dame from football schedule to play a patsy?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2024

Again, the easiest marks are the ones who don't realize they're being set up as a patsy.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2023

Many journalists have anointed him both—a destroyer of worlds but also a deal-maker, a patsy but also a conquering hero.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2023

I will not be a patsy for that.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2023

Without even perfunctory regrets at the man’s passing, he accused Luthuli of being a patsy of the white man, mainly on the grounds that the chief had accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela