I. noun
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Investigators believe Dailey was a dupe for international drug smugglers.
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Some portray the family as unwitting dupes of conspiracy theorists.
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And wretched they were, too, the poor hungry dupes.
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Most of us, frankly, are witless dupes to nature when the question is a baby.
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Richard's other dupes seem culpably naïve, deceived by false appearances.
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She looked at them, and saw dupes.
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They further felt that Scott and Trist had been the gullible dupes of Santa Anna.
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You poor dupe , she told herself.
II. verb
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The perpetrators of the hoax managed to dupe respectable journalists into printing their story.
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The spies duped government and military officials alike.
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And not only that, she had compounded her stupidity by allowing herself to be duped by Leo.
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At least with her young, keen eyes she would have seen that he was being duped by his own nephew.
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If I think the reason for moral thought and action is to realise intrinsically worthwhile states, I have been duped.
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Sure, they were duped and deluded.
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The passion that wakened in me was anger, for I knew then that she had duped me.
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They had duped her and looted her of her sincerity.
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Were these held in reserve in case I wouldn't be duped?
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Women dieters, she realized, had been duped.