Sentence examples for been duped for from inspiring English sources

Maciel's fraud raises uncomfortable questions for today's Vatican about how so many people could have been duped for so long.

The producers declined to describe how he reacted when he learned he had been duped for the sake of comedy.

It is one of the enduring puzzles of the Madoff scandal: how so many sophisticated, even brilliant, investors were duped for so long.

Marc Gersen, Berkeley, Calif.:While it may have been a nightmare for you to be a political Cassandra for a few years, don't forget that for those of us who were duped for so many years, it's a nightmare too.

I was duped for what seemed like a long time.

Heisman Trophy finalist Te'o alleges that he, like thousands of his supporters, was duped for months by Tuiasosopo into believing that Kekua was a real person.

"The taxpayers of this city have been duped, hoodwinked and misguided for the past several years," Valdivia said, according to the Sun.

One victim of such calls, a 74-year-old woman living on her own and in receipt of pension credit, told the Observer she had been duped out of £90 for a call-blocking device that she didn't need.

Free trade doesn't work, the global economy is a myth and the U.S. has been duped during trade negotiations for the past 40 years according to Ian Fletcher, an adjunct fellow with the U.S. Business and Industry Council and author of Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why, who relayed these concepts to me in an exclusive interview.

But for the Nuwaubians, who have for decades been duped into believing that white people are inherently evil, it's a sign of the end times.

Unfortunately, just a few months later it emerged that Darduna had been duped into selling the door for just 700 shekels – about £120.