Example sentences for: duped

How can you use “duped” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's not as if he was picked out of a rope line to play a round of Who Wants to Be a Campaign Accessory; he was a committed partisan duped into portraying no one in particular.

  • English critics say the crowd's gullibility proves the New York art establishment's "utter obliviousness to the ridiculous" (the Guardian ). Stateside, Newsweek 's Peter Plagens insists that "hardly anybody was duped."

  • Also, Vanity Fair excerpts a novel about a journalist covering the O.J. case for Vanity Fair . The author is Dominick Dunne, a journalist who covered the O.J. case for Vanity Fair . An article details how Kennedy biographer Seymour Hersh got duped by forgers offering bogus JFK-Marilyn Monroe correspondence.

  • They can be duped.

  • For Ben Jonson, writing this brilliant poem early in the 17 th century, the opposite is true: The ear is the avenue of the spirit, while the eye is duped by mere seeming.


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