duped

¹

[ doopt, dyoopt ]

adjective

1. deceived, fooled, or tricked:

   There are no duped people in this sequence of events, only those who have chosen to remain willfully ignorant.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of dupe ¹( def ).

duped

²

[ doopt, dyoopt ]

adjective

, Informal.

1. (especially of recorded sound or images) duplicated.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of dupe ²( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of duped¹

dupe ¹( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Origin of duped²

dupe ²( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Like millions of others, I read Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run and realized that I’d been duped by big running shoe companies who had sold me something that I didn’t actually need.

From Outside Online

Among the other defendants in the case are businesses and sellers in China that helped source the dupes.

From TechCrunch

Maybe you dupe me, maybe you dupe my wife, but you’re not going to dupe 14 major companies.

From Washington Post

In a fatal mistake, fishflee in the wrong direction — straight toward a snake’smouth — when duped by a twitch of the snake’s neck rightbefore the predator strikes.

From Science News

While submitting and canceling orders isn’t illegal, it is unlawful as part of a strategy intended to dupe other traders.

From Fortune

“People are getting wise to the trick and nobody wants to feel they are behind duped,” he says.

From The Daily Beast

He was duped into silly offensive fouls when smaller men moved in behind him as he powered toward the basket.

From The Daily Beast

If the women were duped, that consent can retroactively be denied.

From The Daily Beast

One of his victims was Vegas singer Wayne Newton, who was one of the lucky ones since he was only duped out of $850.

From The Daily Beast

In any case, I doubt that being duped by Iran is what Obama officials worry about most.

From The Daily Beast

If the above fail to open the eyes of the duped workmen of this country, what will succeed in doing so?

From Project Gutenberg

Ah, beloved brethren, all this is true; and still we say we will be slaves to none, nor let ourselves be duped by gentle words.

From Project Gutenberg

But the Whig chiefs were not men to be duped by the professions of so notorious a liar.

From Project Gutenberg

He thinks you were duped after the death of the king into accepting that castle on Madame Diane's overthrow.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, jealousy and perception awoke together—at one sweeping glance backward, she saw herself slighted—foiled—duped!

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• confounded
• confused
• deceived
• deluded
• fooled
• misguided
• misinformed
• misinterpreting
• misjudging
• misled
• tricked