dupe's Usage Examples:

If people are successfully duped by a magician, then it is magic.

Even if he were not the author of the forgeries he can scarcely have been the dupe of his own partisans.

dupe have tested a lot of them and effectively what they are doing is duping the public.

On the outbreak of the World War he at first seemed to be going to side with the Government, but, after having obtained some private knowledge of the way in which German public opinion had been duped, he turned against his own party, the Social Democrats, and attacked them for supporting the war.

He never played, but he loved a good gamester and despised all dupes.

dupehnson told the court: " I'm not duping anybody.

dupeking a fortune duping people never bothered Randall Gordon.

"Diploma mills," or scam-based institutions that issue fake degrees, are very common in the distance-learning sphere and manage to dupe many students who intend to sign up for a legitimate educational program.

The reality was that I was only an innocent dupe.

She has accused her soon-to-be ex of trying to "dupe" her into signing a post-nuptial agreement and of hiding the proceeds from the multi-million dollar sale of their Miami, Florida home.

Some supposedly "ghostly" images captured on film were done so by accident, while others were purposely staged and created to dupe the public.

History became the tragic spectacle of a game of dupes - the real movers being priests, kings or warriors.

There is no trustworthy history of the war, based on all the material now available, and all the existing works must be read with caution, especially those by eye-witnesses, who were too often prejudiced or the dupes of the Greek factions.

Synonyms:

put one across, put one over, fool, gull, befool, kid, betray, pull the leg of, take in, lead astray, put on, cod, deceive, slang,

Antonyms:

female, adult, worker, debtor, undeceive,