Examples of dupe

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The relationship between magnetiser and subject remained therefore ambivalent: how could it be proved that the subject was not really duping the magnetiser?
I don't mean the political parties; the rank and file are always roughly honest, and often duped.
They tend to see people as unthinking dupes who arc simply pushed and pulled around by the needs of capital.
If accused, he can claim to have been duped by a spy even more cunning than himself.
We may thus, as upholders of intrinsic contingency, be the dupes of our own cognitive blindness.
The hypocrite is nearer, his dupes farther off, and this in-between position allows him to exploit his skilful two-facedness.
There was, of course, something- name some names of those who had duped him, and he duly did.
Not only does this model of cultural change deny agency to the individuals concerned, who become the dupes of a culture directed by its core values.
At the same time, he is presented as a kind of hapless innocent on the domestic front, duped occasionally by his servants and not adept at housekeeping.
As reflected in the dictionary definition of the term, teenyboppers are seen as passive consumers, fanatical followers of the latest fashions and credulous dupes for advertisers.
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