GULL Synonyms: 131 Similar and Opposite Words

gull 1 of 2

noun

as in sucker

one who is easily deceived or cheated was enough of a gull to fall victim to a pyramid scheme even though he'd been duped before

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gull

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verb

as in to fool

to cause to believe what is untrue we were gulled into believing that if we answered the e-mail, we'd somehow become millionaires, but instead we just got put on a list for junk mail

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Noun

Those choices included a squawking Australian accent that Hemsworth likened to a chatty sea gull, as well as a prosthetic nose partly selected to scramble the audience’s expectations of what Hemsworth can deliver as an actor. —

Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 16 May 2024 Perhaps a fan of the eventual winner, Justin Leonard, the gull eventually flew off with the ball and dropped it in the water. —

Victor Mather, New York Times, 16 May 2024

Verb

That’s because the agency’s duty is to stand in the way of businesses desiring to push unsafe and ineffective nostrums at unwary consumers, and also in the way of a perverse idea that personal freedom includes the freedom to be gulled by charlatans. —

Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023 O’Rourke is the underdog in his race against Republican Abbott, who has been casting the Democrat as a flip-flopper who is trying to gull Texas voters. —

Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022 See all Example Sentences for gull

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