Dupe
noun
A person who is easily deceived or tricked.
He realized too late that he had been the dupe of a clever con artist.
Often appears as...
- be a dupe
- easy dupe
verb
To deceive or trick someone.
She duped him into giving her all his money by pretending to be in love with him.
Often appears as...
- dupe someone into
- dupe someone out of
noun
A duplicate or copy of something.
There are many dupes of famous artworks.
Often appears as...
- exact dupe
- perfect dupe
Usage tips
Informal
noun
A person who is easily deceived or tricked.
He realized too late that he had been the dupe of a clever con artist.
Often appears as...
- be a dupe
- easy dupe
verb
To deceive or trick someone.
She duped him into giving her all his money by pretending to be in love with him.
Often appears as...
- dupe someone into
- dupe someone out of
noun
A duplicate or copy of something.
There are many dupes of famous artworks.
Often appears as...
- exact dupe
- perfect dupe
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'dupe' as a noun implies a negative view of the person, suggesting gullibility.
Investors were portrayed as dupes in the Ponzi scheme scandal.
Pro Tip 2/3Being Tricked
'Dupe' indicates someone fell for a trick, not just made a simple mistake.
After the email scam, she felt like such a dupe.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Deception-Related
The term 'dupe' commonly appears in contexts involving deceit, scams, or frauds.
The movie's hero was a dupe caught in a web of lies.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'dupe' as a noun implies a negative view of the person, suggesting gullibility.
Investors were portrayed as dupes in the Ponzi scheme scandal.
Pro Tip 2/3Being Tricked
'Dupe' indicates someone fell for a trick, not just made a simple mistake.
After the email scam, she felt like such a dupe.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Deception-Related
The term 'dupe' commonly appears in contexts involving deceit, scams, or frauds.
The movie's hero was a dupe caught in a web of lies.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'dupe' as a noun implies a negative view of the person, suggesting gullibility.
Investors were portrayed as dupes in the Ponzi scheme scandal.
Pro Tip 2/3Being Tricked
'Dupe' indicates someone fell for a trick, not just made a simple mistake.
After the email scam, she felt like such a dupe.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Deception-Related
The term 'dupe' commonly appears in contexts involving deceit, scams, or frauds.
The movie's hero was a dupe caught in a web of lies.
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Video examples
How to spot a liar PIPE...
We tell very convincing stories, we slightly shrug our shoulders. We commit terrible crimes, and we smile at the delight in getting away with it. Now, that smile is known in the trade as "duping delight." And we're going to see that in several videos moving forward, but we're going to start -- for those of you who don't know him,
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A plant's-eye view -...
never letting it set seed or die or have sex and and that's what the lawn was but then I realize no this is exactly what the grasses want us to do I'm a dupe I'm a dupe of the lawns whose goal in life is to out-compete the trees who it competes with who they compete with for
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Hire the hackers! -...
that certain disabilities can manifest themselves in the hacking and computing world as tremendous skills and that we should not be throwing in jail people who have such disabilities and skills because they have lost their way socially or been duped now I think we're
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Misha Glenny: Hire the...
that certain disabilities can manifest themselves in the hacking and computing world as tremendous skills, and that we should not be throwing in jail people who have such disabilities and skills because they have lost their way socially or been duped.
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How do you know you...
Perhaps this diabolical deceiver has duped you. The world, your perceptions of it, your very body. You can't disprove that they're all just made up, and how could you exist without them? You couldn't! So, you don't. Life is but a dream,
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Jason Silva on...
into a world of engineered serendipity and I think that's very interesting I want to be persuaded by things I'm already fascinated by the consumer is not a dope to be duped I think the consumer is the toughest market
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The gospel of doubt PIPE...
again and again and again. I had been duped, hoodwinked, bamboozled. But this time, the false savior was me. You see, I've come a long way from that altar on the night I thought the world would end,
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Michael Pollan: A...
I'm a dupe. I'm a dupe of the lawns, whose goal in life is to outcompete the trees, who they compete with for sunlight." And so by getting us to mow the lawn, we keep the trees from coming back,
Video examples
How do we reason for a...
aisle not this fellow citizen but as combatants and dupes to be manipulated or coerced and that's a problem
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Amazing Animal...
then the duped squirrel needs to be craftier this time
Video examples
How to spot a liar PIPE...
We tell very convincing stories, we slightly shrug our shoulders. We commit terrible crimes, and we smile at the delight in getting away with it. Now, that smile is known in the trade as "duping delight." And we're going to see that in several videos moving forward, but we're going to start -- for those of you who don't know him,
Video examples
A plant's-eye view -...
never letting it set seed or die or have sex and and that's what the lawn was but then I realize no this is exactly what the grasses want us to do I'm a dupe I'm a dupe of the lawns whose goal in life is to out-compete the trees who it competes with who they compete with for
Video examples
Hire the hackers! -...
that certain disabilities can manifest themselves in the hacking and computing world as tremendous skills and that we should not be throwing in jail people who have such disabilities and skills because they have lost their way socially or been duped now I think we're
Video examples
Misha Glenny: Hire the...
that certain disabilities can manifest themselves in the hacking and computing world as tremendous skills, and that we should not be throwing in jail people who have such disabilities and skills because they have lost their way socially or been duped.
Video examples
How do you know you...
Perhaps this diabolical deceiver has duped you. The world, your perceptions of it, your very body. You can't disprove that they're all just made up, and how could you exist without them? You couldn't! So, you don't. Life is but a dream,
Video examples
Jason Silva on...
into a world of engineered serendipity and I think that's very interesting I want to be persuaded by things I'm already fascinated by the consumer is not a dope to be duped I think the consumer is the toughest market
Video examples
The gospel of doubt PIPE...
again and again and again. I had been duped, hoodwinked, bamboozled. But this time, the false savior was me. You see, I've come a long way from that altar on the night I thought the world would end,
Video examples
Michael Pollan: A...
I'm a dupe. I'm a dupe of the lawns, whose goal in life is to outcompete the trees, who they compete with for sunlight." And so by getting us to mow the lawn, we keep the trees from coming back,
Video examples
How do we reason for a...
aisle not this fellow citizen but as combatants and dupes to be manipulated or coerced and that's a problem
Video examples
Amazing Animal...
then the duped squirrel needs to be craftier this time
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Quote examples
Tim Heidecker
American Actor
I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
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John Bradshaw
American Philosopher
Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.
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Edwidge Danticat
Haitian Author
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
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Wesley Morris
American Critic
Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.
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Mark Pagel
Scientist
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.
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Abigail Disney
American Director
The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.
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William Hazlitt
English Critic
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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Abby Johnson
American Activist
I know I'm a smart person, and yet I was duped by the abortion industry for eight years. Why did it take so long for me to see the truth? I don't know.
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William Beveridge
English Economist
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
Quote examples
Tim Heidecker
American Actor
I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.
Quote examples
Fidel Castro
Statesman
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
Quote examples
John Bradshaw
American Philosopher
Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.
Quote examples
Edwidge Danticat
Haitian Author
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
Quote examples
Wesley Morris
American Critic
Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.
Quote examples
Mark Pagel
Scientist
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.
Quote examples
Abigail Disney
American Director
The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.
Quote examples
William Hazlitt
English Critic
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
Quote examples
Abby Johnson
American Activist
I know I'm a smart person, and yet I was duped by the abortion industry for eight years. Why did it take so long for me to see the truth? I don't know.
Quote examples
William Beveridge
English Economist
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
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