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Discover LudwigThe word "Dupe" is correct in written English
It is typically used to refer to someone who has been deceived or tricked. Example: "He was a dupe in the elaborate scam that cost him thousands of dollars."
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Dupe
verb
To swindle, deceive, or trick.
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Newsmen gathered like sharks in New York, expecting a Soviet dupe, a hick or a bighead.
"What you are is you are a dupe".
Spammers use shortened addresses to dupe internet users into clicking on infected or bogus sites.
Even if only a small fraction are snared, it is still a lucrative ploy: their own charges are small since they never give their quarry a chance to answer.Others dupe callers into providing credit-card numbers.
Now he can add the fact that he warned America against putting a corporate dupe in Washington.
From the left, Thomas Frank (in his book "What's the Matter with Kansas?") argued that the reason why the Republicans have done so well in that state and by extension across the board in meat-and-potatoes America is that they have used values to dupe ordinary Americans into voting against their interests.
Facing a tough re-election fight, Mr Sarkozy last week declared that Europe should not be a "dupe" when it came to global trade, and proposed EU import taxes to help pay for European welfare systems.Germany's priority is rules establishing unprecedented oversight of euro-zone economies.
(It said it had uncovered a plot in which some of the ink had been smuggled into the country, apparently in an opposition attempt to dupe potential voters into disqualifying themselves through premature inking).One reason for Mr Badawi's debacle is that, for once, the opposition did not cut its own throat.
And if Mr Abbas compromises with Mr Netanyahu, he will be accused of betrayal by Hamas, the extremist half of the Palestinian movement which he does not control and which already denounces him as an American dupe.
It offered confidence tricksters a fresh audience of suckers who had previously hid too far afield to dupe (they were also, helpfully, too far away to seek retribution).Babbage recalls chain letters received by his parents when he was a child.
New arrivals are still trickling into the Thai camps following the latest such attack, earlier this year.In this section A little solidarity Abe steps up An internal affair A dope dupe A burden but also a boon ReprintsOne fugitive Karen says she was a teenager when her family was among the first to arrive in Mae La, in 1984.
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