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

He is an easy mark — a rare black man and immigrant in the shrinking mill city of Campbellton, who trained as a doctor during the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2020

I thought he would be an easy mark, being stiff, paralyzed, but of course the agony was mine.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee