Sentence examples for Innocent dupe from inspiring English sources

But is Albus, as Harry suspects, an innocent dupe?

I was curious as to whether she was a willing accomplice, innocent dupe, reluctant co-conspirator, or whatever.

Mr. Ghailani's lawyers argued at his trial that he was an innocent dupe, carrying out acts for others without knowing that they were plotting the attacks.

In this production he created a new type of clown combining rogue and simpleton, criminal and innocent dupe in one character, a role subsequently adopted by many other English clowns.

The Utah Republican congresswoman "said that blind love made her the innocent dupe of a husband who defrauded her family and possibly financed her 1994 campaign with tainted money," according to the Los Angeles Times.

PAGE B1 Summation in Sotheby Case A. Alfred Taubman, the former chairman of Sotheby's, was alternately described as a devious price-fixer and an innocent dupe in closing arguments at his trial.

Or was he a backwoods innocent duped by his savvy Whig "friends"?

For most of the movie, they sustain the idea that they (or at least Nev) are innocent dupes, even as their film is built on, and ends by affirming, the assumption that they are smarter and more sophisticated than Wesselman-Pierce.

These guys are acting like they're just innocent dupes," Limbaugh said.

He went with a scatter gun and he lumped together fellow travelers, innocent dupes, and hard-core Communists.... Reagan's restraint was produced in large measure by his understanding that 'if we get so frightened that we suspend our traditional democratic freedoms in order to fight them - they still have won.

The fact that Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio can say with a straight face that W. and Cheney and Rummy and Condi were innocent dupes of an "intelligence failure," and that the corporate media will blandly repeat these lies, points to a deeper failure in our political discourse.