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Перевод: dupe
[существительное] простофиля ; простак ; жертва обмана; [глагол] одурачивать; обманывать
Тезаурус:
- The success of a brood parasite like the European cuckoo depends on how well it can "dupe" its host, whether reed warbler or dunnock.
- Those fellow-travellers of communism who sought to dupe the American people into arms control at lower levels were not identified but implied.
- just as irradiation has the potential to mislead the consumer about the quality of food on sale, so the use of cosmetic additives can dupe customers about the nutritional value of the food they are buying.
- Barnaby , Rudge's feeble-minded son, a good-natured half-wit, becomes the dupe of leaders of the Gordon rioters ( see GORDON, LORD GEORGE), and as a result is arrested and sentenced to death, but through Varden's intervention is reprieved and released.
- And how had Malamute managed to dupe the agencies?
- In "Rikoran" the Pu Yi of actor Masayoshi Yamaguchi is a comically astute man who realises that he is powerless as Japan's dupe in Manchuria.
- They were renouncing the wholesale cruelty which, with a uniform and general severity of punishment treated all, the unfortunate dupe as well as the designing knave, alike as guilty.
- You poor dupe, she told herself.
- The roles needed for this kind of plot, then, are Hypocrite, Dupe, and Exposer.
- At some point, between the end of the prosecution in December and the beginning of the defence in February, Noriega's lawyers abandoned what was to be a sensational defence: a claim that Noriega was a dupe of CIA-contract pilots running guns to Nicaraguan Contras and returning home via Panama with cocaine.
- The therapist becomes a "con" man, and the patient the dupe!
- Jaq had been chosen as a dupe.
- The move apparently upset his father - a redundant trade unionist - and provoked derision in the anti-Thatcher heartlands of central Scotland, where Nicholas was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard.
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