Thesaurus results for ROOKED

rooked

verb

past tense of rook

as in cheated

to rob by the use of trickery or threats once you learn to recognize these swindler's tricks, no one will be able to use them to rook you

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Scarlett Johansson sued you over that, alleging that Disney cheated her out of box office upside.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
OpenAI revealed that the Hugging Face hack wasn't the only time its bots had lied, cheated, and hidden its tracks from humans.

— David Pogue, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of cheated

Verb

Her mother hustled her to hospital, only for the doctors to realize Accurso’s active imagination had left her in the same predicament as Madeline’s friends.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
In the press box, Ravens assistants hustled downstairs to join the celebration.

— Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of hustled

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In fact, all four songs sound like they were plucked from previous albums like Midnights or The Tortured Poets Department.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
Paired with a prominent pink lip and punctuating updo, the glam appeared as if it were plucked from an early 2000s look book.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of plucked

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As solitary insects with limited aggression towards humans, the risk of getting stung is often not worth your direct interference.

— Sean Donnelly, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
Two years is a long time in the NFL, yet that wild-card loss to the Philadelphia Eagles still stung in the building.

— Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of stung

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Sometimes a lid isn’t screwed tightly, and your foundation proves its worth all over the inside of your bag.

— Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026
Like her, Americans are also so tired of being screwed by an administration that’s not only grossly incompetent and cruel but corrupt as well.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of screwed

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But as a viewer, at least, watching American Horror Story feels more than ever like being stuck in some sort of hell.

— Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2026
If you have ever been stuck in traffic wishing your car could sprout wings, Samson Sky has been working on something pretty close.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of stuck

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At one point, Fred was swindled out of upward of $15,000 when someone pretended to be the owner of a house for sale that Fred wanted to buy.

— Megan Rose, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2026
Holdo swindled 32 victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars for Rolex watches that never existed, authorities said.

— City News Service, Oc Register, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of swindled

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