as in deceived
to cause to believe what is untrue
we were duped into thinking the dummy was a real alien
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Recent Examples of duped
Viv Chen, Architectural Digest, 9 Sep. 2025
Taxpayers who were duped with incorrect information are encouraged to amend their tax returns immediately, respond to IRS letters and hire a reputable tax professional.
—Jeremy Tanner, The Hill, 8 Sep. 2025
Thelma When 93-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) receives a panicked phone call from someone posing as her grandson, she's duped into mailing $10,000 to bail him out of trouble.
—Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
While Mare blossoms quickly under his guidance, the rest lag doltishly behind, using journalism as a pretext to confront an ex, or getting duped by some teens into writing a credulous account of a preposterous youth trend.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Furthermore, rising executives may be duped by the idea that networking doesn’t yield material results.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
If the browser can’t be trusted, then the device passkey setup and the services can be duped.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
And Dart duped a defender to press down to the flat to open up the middle out for a strike completion to Ihmir Smith-Marsette.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
To my relief, I hadn’t been duped.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The difference today is the modern impulse to broadcast your home spaces online, where trends can become saturated and then duped.
—Viv Chen, Architectural Digest, 9 Sep. 2025
Taxpayers who were duped with incorrect information are encouraged to amend their tax returns immediately, respond to IRS letters and hire a reputable tax professional.
—Jeremy Tanner, The Hill, 8 Sep. 2025
Thelma When 93-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) receives a panicked phone call from someone posing as her grandson, she's duped into mailing $10,000 to bail him out of trouble.
—Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
While Mare blossoms quickly under his guidance, the rest lag doltishly behind, using journalism as a pretext to confront an ex, or getting duped by some teens into writing a credulous account of a preposterous youth trend.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Furthermore, rising executives may be duped by the idea that networking doesn’t yield material results.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
If the browser can’t be trusted, then the device passkey setup and the services can be duped.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
And Dart duped a defender to press down to the flat to open up the middle out for a strike completion to Ihmir Smith-Marsette.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
To my relief, I hadn’t been duped.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duped
Verb
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Soto and her twins say both families were deceived – their family in Chile and their adoptive parents in Italy who didn’t know the girls had been taken away from their biological mother without her consent.—
Rafael Romo,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
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The band’s attorneys said that consumers could be easily deceived by the products allegedly sold on the marketplace, which could, in turn, cause reputational damage for Twenty One Pilots and its legitimate products.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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My homies then were deluded, too.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Bob had to be valiant, dictatorial, curious, ever listening, wily, playful, deluded, strategic, flirtatious, fallible, political, and willing to protect and persevere against all doubters, critics, compass navigators, naysayers well intentioned or not.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
19 Aug. 2025
Verb
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An Arizona inmate tricked court officials into releasing him more than two decades early by filing fake orders allegedly dismissing his charges.—
Suzanne Nuyen,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
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Many of the women who spoke Monday addressed that claim directly, saying they were tricked and coerced from the start and that the deceit went far beyond one lie about where the video would be distributed.—
Alex Riggins,
Mercury News,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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It must also be said that, for all the lamenting of the Netherlands’ failure to win, West Germany — and Muller — were robbed of a clear goal in the second half due to an erroneous offside flag.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
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On Thursday, an erroneous report of a man with a gun sent two Boulder schools into lockdown.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Hurricanes explained by Ginger Zee Don't be fooled by the lack of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Basin.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2025
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After driving his team to the 1-yard line, Fields fooled the entire Steelers defense on a fourth down, faking a handoff and then high-stepping into the end zone untouched to take a 32-31 lead.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Duped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duped. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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