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tricked
adjective as in cheated
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adjective as in misled
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adjective as in mistaken
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- confounded
- confused
- deceived
- deluded
- duped
- fooled
- misguided
- misinformed
- misinterpreting
- misjudging
- misled
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Example Sentences
Jeanne de la Motte, a noblewoman fallen on hard times, pretended to be French Queen and tricked a cardinal into giving her the necklace, without paying.
A woman says she felt sick when she was tricked into transferring £20,000 to criminals after being persuaded to share her screen on a WhatsApp call.
“People are anxious about where they are in their personal lives, they’re working harder and they’re getting less money in their paycheck and Donald Trump has tricked them into thinking that he’ll make it better for them.”
So some of the golf carts are tricked out and look cool because people who live there want to have the nicest one.
It also refers directly to practices known as “blackbirding”, where Pacific islanders were tricked or kidnapped into slave or cheap labour in colonies throughout the region.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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