patsy

Example Sentences

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Granted, this first game was against the tanking Jazz, the same franchise that played patsy to Bryant’s 60 points nine years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025

After all, she played the role of the getaway driver when he fled the process server last year, so clearly she's got a history of being a willing patsy for her husband's shady behavior.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 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

Regibald du Burgh announced, “I accept the challenge of the once-archivist Werfel, traitor to his own people, elf-friend, patsy for the enemy.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin