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
Dan Mangan, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
The hometown crowd has to feel duped.
—Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Even with education and preventative measures, older adults—like all people—still can be duped.
—Suzi Morales, Parents, 25 Sep. 2025
Everyone else is easily duped and manipulated, but not Wendy.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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
Adjective
The scams duped people contacted via social media and messaging applications online into transferring cryptocurrency into accounts controlled by the scheme with false promises that the crypto would be invested and produce profits, according to the office.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
The hometown crowd has to feel duped.
—Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Even with education and preventative measures, older adults—like all people—still can be duped.
—Suzi Morales, Parents, 25 Sep. 2025
Everyone else is easily duped and manipulated, but not Wendy.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duped
Verb
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But first, Dawgs will have to prove a number of requirements, including whether the misleading statements deceived or had the ability to deceive consumers, and, if yes, whether that deception had a material effect on consumer purchasing decisions.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
7 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, bank customers aren't always reimbursed when they're hit by some scams, including when they're deceived into making a payment to a con artist, such as in a romance scam.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
2 Oct. 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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The consumer is led to believe there is a fraudulent activity involving their account — and they're tricked with working with a scammer to fix a fake problem.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
8 Oct. 2025
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According to the outlet and several videos circulating on social media, Mojito tricked pedestrians by pretending to inject them with a syringe in a series of viral videos.—
Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Engineers outfitted the device with a heater to melt ice in the winter, a customization that should improve accuracy during Arizona’s freeze-thaw cycles that have long created erroneous measurements.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Vedra and other debt law experts said a high rate of default judgments indicates a system that favors the pursuers over the pursued — and increases the chances someone will be harmed by an erroneous bill.—
Rae Ellen Bichell,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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And though in public, the royal family remains upbeat, people who have been following the monarchy for a while aren’t fooled.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
13 Oct. 2025
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Viewer Reactions The TikTok video reached over 874,100 views, 171,200 likes and 657 comments as of Monday, with people cracking up in the comment section, claiming they too had been fooled for a moment.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Duped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duped. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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