| 词汇 | rooked |
| 释义 | rooked past simple and past participle ofrook rook verb[ T ] old-fashionedinformaluk /rʊk/ us /rʊk/ to cheat someone out of some money诈骗，敲诈，骗取（某人的）钱财 Synonyms coninformal defraud diddle(TRICK)informal gypUSinformal old-fashioned swindle Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle fiddle flannel game-fixing grift grifter gull have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom pretext pretextual pull pull a fast oneidiom pull the wool over someone's eyesidiom racket Examples of rookedrooked In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is not playing the game to suggest that the investor has been rooked on the average. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not clear that many ordinary working people get rooked and find themselves in great difficulty? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In what way has the consumer been rooked—there is no other word for it? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing worse than to come back from a holiday feeling that one has been "rooked" right and left. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What guarantee have the people of this country they are not being rooked? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know what safeguards there are against the public being rooked by such bodies because they are not controlled at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On others, she has talked about the consumer being rooked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one can tell me that in that case the taxpayer and the ratepayer have not been rooked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Meanwhile, probably thousands of people are being "rooked". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They could easily be rooked by people who do not seem to have very fine feelings about these things. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the one case the producer is liable to be ruined and in the other the consumer is rooked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want the taxpayers to be rooked in any shape or form. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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