as in fooled
to cause to believe what is untrue
you tricked me into thinking my ex wasn't coming to the party tonight
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Recent Examples of tricked
Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
The initial scheme involved a nonprofit organization that tricked state and federal officials into paying them to serve food to thousands of hungry children but never provided the meals.
—Jonah Kaplan, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
Yet another elderly victim had just fed thousands of dollars into the device after being tricked by a scammer.
—Curt Devine, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
This happened after a phone phishing attack tricked someone into giving the attacker a way into the system.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Dec. 2025
Kim even tricked a bunch of people who did special effects for Godzilla movies, including suitmation actor Kenpachiro Satsuma, into working on Pulgasari.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Respected tech firms try to put safeguards in place to prevent their bots from being used to create malicious code, but they can be tricked; a user can pose as a participant in a cybersecurity competition, as experts at Google recently reported, which may lead the AI to comply with their requests.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2025
And nobody likes to be tricked.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
This likely wouldn't be the first time a dog tricked someone into being locked in a kennel, given the sheer number of those who work closely with animals.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
Accountancy has seen several cheating scandals in recent years, with the Big Four firms hit with multimillion-dollar fines after staff tricked internal exams, but the sector is far from alone.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for tricked
Verb
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Don't be fooled by an ocean that looks calm.—
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Don't be fooled by the name, there's nothing murky about this southern-style soup.—
Adjective
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Here, this happily deluded dingus is played by a modern master of the type, David Cross.—
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The Athletic was told of one manager turning down a mid-table Premier League club because their ambitious and/or deluded owner had promised to sign Kylian Mbappe, a couple of years before the French superstar moved to… Real Madrid.—
Verb
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Your husband claims not to have known the weekend arrangements in advance, claiming you were both deceived — not only by his old friends, but by their wives, and by the single female neighbor.—
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The agency’s lawsuit asserts Instacart deceived consumers with false advertising, failure to provide refunds and unlawful subscription enrollment processes.—
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Quick hits — Canales told reporters that the refs in the Panthers’ loss to the Bucs on Saturday never gave the Panthers the chance to replay a critical down after an erroneous whistle stopped it dead.—
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In Wiggins case, the court ruled the trial judge gave erroneous legal instructions to the jury.—
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“Tricked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tricked. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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