tricked 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of trickednext
as in deceived

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tricked

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verb

past tense of trick
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 Synonyms for tricked
  1. fooled
  2. deluded
  3. deceived
  4. erroneous
Verb
  • Don't be fooled into thinking a nice hotel is less likely to have bedbugs.
    Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But, don’t be fooled, Jewels intends to enter the competition with intention and strategy.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of fooled
Adjective
  • Smash’s Megan Hilty steps into the Meryl Streep part (and cribs Streep’s bio for her own in the Playbill) as the deluded actress Madeline Ashton.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Earlier this morning, abusive and deluded homeless man dressed in white was shouting up and down our street, blowing on trumpet.
    Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of deluded
Verb
  • Phishing efforts would fail because the passkey would not be transmitted if an attacker created a phony website or deceived a victim.
    Mark Vena, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The indictment alleges that Adani and his associates deceived investors by concealing the bribery scheme.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of deceived
Adjective
  • An employee with responsibility for small package delivery expense accounting intentionally made erroneous accounting accrual entries to hide about $151 million of cumulative delivery expenses from the fourth quarter of 2021 through the third quarter of 2024, Macy’s indicated.
    David Moin, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In a statement accompanying its quarterly earnings results, the department store chain said a single employee responsible for small package delivery expense accounting had intentionally created erroneous cost entries from the fourth quarter of 2021 through the third quarter of 2024.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of erroneous
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tricked

tricked (out)

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