fool

“If you think this bill is about protecting women and not simply a ploy to get on Fox News, you've been fooled,” she wrote.

Players were in a dorm room fooling around with a gun.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

Republicans who think they're safe because they play along are fooling themselves.

It's a direct substitution of fool's gold for the real thing.