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duped

adjective as in cheated

adjective as in deceived

adjective as in deluded

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adjective as in fooled

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Like millions of others, I read Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run and realized that I’d been duped by big running shoe companies who had sold me something that I didn’t actually need.

Among the other defendants in the case are businesses and sellers in China that helped source the dupes.

Maybe you dupe me, maybe you dupe my wife, but you’re not going to dupe 14 major companies.

In a fatal mistake, fishflee in the wrong direction — straight toward a snake’smouth — when duped by a twitch of the snake’s neck rightbefore the predator strikes.

While submitting and canceling orders isn’t illegal, it is unlawful as part of a strategy intended to dupe other traders.

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“People are getting wise to the trick and nobody wants to feel they are behind duped,” he says.

He was duped into silly offensive fouls when smaller men moved in behind him as he powered toward the basket.

If the women were duped, that consent can retroactively be denied.

One of his victims was Vegas singer Wayne Newton, who was one of the lucky ones since he was only duped out of $850.

In any case, I doubt that being duped by Iran is what Obama officials worry about most.

If the above fail to open the eyes of the duped workmen of this country, what will succeed in doing so?

Ah, beloved brethren, all this is true; and still we say we will be slaves to none, nor let ourselves be duped by gentle words.

But the Whig chiefs were not men to be duped by the professions of so notorious a liar.

He thinks you were duped after the death of the king into accepting that castle on Madame Diane's overthrow.

Now, jealousy and perception awoke together—at one sweeping glance backward, she saw herself slighted—foiled—duped!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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