Example Sentences

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“But most women feel gypped by life if they don’t get a chance at it.”

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

Politics is the province of the unhappy and querulous; perhaps all the more so because, having paid, people feel particularly gypped.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2012

When the Senator asked Mr. Young if widows, orphans and other investors "don't get gypped by these big holding companies," the Manhattan broker replied: "That's right."

From Time Magazine Archive

Many a smart art dealer has been sued by a customer who thinks he has been gypped.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the Atlantic that broke the market to sixty-five cents, filled their storage tanks and contracted a million barrels more than they had tankage for, then gypped the price to three dollars.

From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood