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pawn
noun as in security for a loan
noun as in person who is a fool
Example Sentences
They were getting more imaginative,” a pawn shop owner thinks of his addict customers in “Back of Beyond.
“Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.
Barely Legal Pawn stars the duo as unscrupulous, possibly deranged pawnshop employees.
With Suzanne, Vee saw someone who could be a pawn in her chess game.
Yet, she is still very much a pawn in the system—her body is actively sold to the highest bidder.
She never dreamed that she herself was a pawn in the game that was intended to bring Nana Sahib to Delhi.
Rat this pawn of the Eye may have been, but even a cornered rat will fight with the courage of a lion.
Afterwards she married one of the most noted scamps in Paris, who wanted a pretty wife as a pawn in some game of his.
To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.
In default of the usual bazaars OLeary had returned with the spoils of half a dozen pawn-shops.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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