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snookered

  • past participle
    of snooker.
    snooker
    noun
    a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of colors other than red, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls, each with a point value of 1, into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls, with point values of from 2 to 7.
  • past tense form
    of snooker.
    snooker
    noun
    a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of colors other than red, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls, each with a point value of 1, into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls, with point values of from 2 to 7.

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“Attorney Baldwin did nothing wrong. He was snookered and abused,” Hennessy said in the memorandum.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

This flavor of whining, however, is doubly sinister, because it's a member of the DOJ leveraging his status to discredit the jury system, simply because these two juries wouldn't be snookered by him.

From Salon ● May 19, 2023

“When you find out who the murderer is and begin leafing through the pages, looking for missed clues,” Tina Jordan recently commented in The Times, “you’ll realize just how completely Christie snookered you.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

Really candidly, in this rural community, I’ve been snookered by some people who basically say they’re doing good and they’re not.

From Washington Times ● May 9, 2021

“Okay, so the authorities are being snookered by these hidden messages. But how could they resist the facts? Show them your Receiver gizmo, Mr. Benedict. They’ll have to believe you.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart