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Example sentences for "duped"

Lexicographically close words:
duologue; duorum; duos; duoviri; dupe; dupery; dupes; duping; duple; duplex
  1. He was not of a character to be easily duped by mystery.

  2. It is true, I suffered myself to be duped by that monster for a moment.

  3. Riponin, the steward, who was scarcely any better than the notary, but who owed Perdreau a grudge for his having duped him in some knavish trick they undertook together.

  4. Simple-minded, as all duped husbands are, he could never grasp what constituted the sacredness in the fact that she was the mother of his children.

  5. How could he have allowed himself to be duped all this time!

  6. Yet I have often been duped by Frenchmen, and never by Spaniards--a proof that we ought to mistrust our tastes.

  7. She was duped by this stratagem, and compelled me to pass a handkerchief over her face, and was then obliged to look at me.

  8. The magistrate was acquainted with the girl, and the mother laughed at having duped me so easily.

  9. When I recovered from my stupor I gave way to an irresistible fit of laughter, and seeing how completely I had been duped I thought I was cured of my love.

  10. His pride, which was then exasperated by a savage irritation, was gratified at defying public opinion, which had been so easily duped before.

  11. But when, on awakening, he surveyed the situation calmly and by the plain light of day, and thought over the preceding evening and its events, he could not fail to recognize the fact that he had been cruelly duped by his own nervous system.

  12. Well, then, at least, he had not been the utterly duped fool he thought himself since the consent was pledged to wed her.

  13. It could not be said that she had duped him; he had done it for himself--acted on by a particular agency.

  14. Mr. Seebright, the poet, was easily duped by this display: he expressed the most flattering astonishment, and pronounced her ladyship to be an universal genius.

  15. French Clay, though he had just made an imprudent match with a singer, was the more loud and violent against the aunt; and English Clay, though he was not in want of her money, was roused by the idea of being duped by the Falconers.

  16. His lordship did not choose to acknowledge to the world that he had been duped by Cunningham Falconer.

  17. Nowise duped by official declamations, Eastman declares that this war is not a war for democracy.

  18. Shamefacedly we may change the name, but let us avoid being duped by the new name!

  19. These poor Orgons, duped and sacrificed, eager to destroy those who would defend them and who seek to enlighten them!

  20. Duped by a post, dispatched from Stygian shade, They would have tracked her heavenly footsteps through A thousand deaths, to bear the damsel aid.

  21. Iyeyoshi had been duped by the wiles of the reactionaries.

  22. My Lord Woroto,” called Yuki, “your enemy has duped the Shogun with evil lies.

  23. Had he been overflowing with wealth, he would have slipped from a creditor, and duped a friend; there was a pitiful and debasing weakness in his nature, which made him regard the lowest meanness as the subtlest wit.

  24. It was strange; but before the deed, I was as a child in the ways of the world, and a child, despite my knowledge, might have duped me.

  25. He will not be duped by this ideal or that; he will not care enough for any to have a strong wish to see it realised; and so he comes to be duped by the wish to disprove all, to work down all sociology to the plane of cynical pseudo-biology.

  26. Taine really gave the great illustration of the truth of his own penetrating comment on Merimee,[4] that he who will be duped by nothing ends in being the dupe of his distrust.

  27. Were not she and Lise of the exploited, of those duped and tempted by the fair things the more fortunate enjoyed unscathed?

  28. We have no quarrel with the duped and oppressed, but we war against the agents of oppression.

  29. Would he be duped by the Governor's ruse of establishing a State Camp at this time?

  30. Legal clinics, like medical clinics, are established for the benefit of those who cannot afford to pay fees, for the protection of the duped from the predatory quack.

  31. Even a duped people, trained in servility, will not consent to be governed by an unsuccessful autocracy.

  32. I saw his ruse, and was not to be duped by it.

  33. An uneasy suspicion began to form in his mind that Barbara was the innocent victim of a Jesuitical conspiracy--that she had been duped into believing herself a princess by ecclesiastics who intended to make use of her as a tool.

  34. Truly it says but little for the wisdom of her statesmen in thus permitting themselves to be duped for a period of half a century!

  35. They too, when they read his letters, knew, what he did not know when the letters were written, that he had been duped by the confident boasts and promises of the apostate Whigs.

  36. It is indeed hardly possible to believe that some of those who opposed the bill were duped by the fallacy of which they condescended to make use.

  37. Here we must extract passages from the last page for a great lesson to Republicans and others that they might not be duped any longer by the blind leaders of the blind.

  38. His first name means in Latin "wrath" or "vengence," and the second name is in the English language appropriate to the important office which our duped and deceived friend did receive in said Convention.

  39. Early this morning Mr. Kennedy, Jackey, and four others left the camp, and began clearing a way up the mountain.

  40. Convinced that the public is duped in this matter of protection, I have endeavoured to prove it.

  41. It appears to me that there is a sure test by which a people can discover whether they are duped or not.

  42. The compliments paid to Miss Fanny Brough by the critics, eulogistic as they are, are the compliments of men three-fourths duped as Partridge was duped by Garrick.

  43. The credulous people are duped by both; while the cunning of the one, and the vehemence of the other, alternately prevail.

  44. The doctrine of popular sovereignty is artfully instilled, and the people are stimulated to exert a power which they must implicitly delegate to those who have duped and misled them.

  45. I know that it is vain to combat the opinions of mankind; there is but one means to cure them, and that is to allow them to be duped themselves.


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