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tricking
verb as in fool; play joke on
Example Sentences
The UK's Foreign Office accuses the disinformation group of creating large numbers of false versions of legitimate news websites, tricking social media users into going to sources of fake information, stoking divisions and causing confusion.
Criminals have particularly targeted victims by tricking them out of their one-time passcodes, trade body UK Finance said.
The lawsuit accused the firm of tricking customers into signing up for Prime subscriptions that renewed automatically and made it difficult for people to cancel.
Forged letters showed McCullough had been tricking her parents into thinking they had lost money through scams.
Trump was so furious at having his falsehood corrected that he literally drew over a storm map, in hopes of tricking people into thinking Alabama was in danger.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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