easy mark

Example Sentences

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Matthiesen didn’t appear to be an easy mark.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Her beauty made her a target, and her soft heart all but guaranteed she’d be an easy mark.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025

Chandler Cunningham-South charges back to halfway and Marcus Smith chips forward - but the the kick is too long, into the 22 and Romain Ntamack calls an easy mark.

From BBC • May 4, 2024

The lineup includes the premiere of “Night Crawlers,” a spoof on “In the Night,” Jerome Robbins’s collection of rapturous love duets set to Chopin — an easy mark for the Trocks.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2021

The three companions now left the hill-top, where they might be an easy mark against the pale sky, and they walked slowly down the northward slope.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien