| gullible | | |
| adj. | 1. fleeceable, green, gullible | naive and easily deceived or tricked.; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love" |
| ~ naif, naive | marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances" |
| adj. | 2. gullible | easily tricked because of being too trusting.; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game" |
| ~ unwary | not alert to danger or deception.; "the shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise"; "some thieves prey especially on unwary travelers"; "seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence" |
| dupe | | |
| n. (person) | 1. dupe, victim | a person who is tricked or swindled. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ laughingstock, goat, stooge, butt | a victim of ridicule or pranks. |
| ~ chump, fall guy, gull, patsy, soft touch, sucker, fool, mug, mark | a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of. |
| ~ lamb | a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters). |
| ~ easy mark, sitting duck | a defenseless victim. |
| v. (communication) | 2. befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in | fool or hoax.; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" |
| ~ kid, pull the leg of | tell false information to for fun.; "Are you pulling my leg?" |
| ~ deceive, lead astray, betray | cause someone to believe an untruth.; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" |
| sucker | | |
| n. (person) | 1. chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker | a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of. |
| ~ dupe, victim | a person who is tricked or swindled. |
| n. (plant) | 2. sucker | a shoot arising from a plant's roots. |
| ~ shoot | a new branch. |
| n. (person) | 3. sucker | a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw). |
| ~ drinker | a person who drinks liquids. |
| n. (food) | 4. sucker | flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws. |
| ~ sucker | mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps. |
| ~ freshwater fish | flesh of fish from fresh water used as food. |
| n. (food) | 5. all-day sucker, lollipop, sucker | hard candy on a stick. |
| ~ candy, confect | a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts. |
| n. (animal) | 6. sucker | an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction. |
| ~ cupule | a sucker on the feet of certain flies. |
| ~ organ | a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function. |
| n. (animal) | 7. sucker | mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps. |
| ~ catostomidae, family catostomidae | suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae. |
| ~ catostomid | a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae. |
| ~ buffalo fish, buffalofish | any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley. |
| ~ hog molly, hog sucker, hypentelium nigricans | widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams. |
| ~ redhorse, redhorse sucker | North American sucker with reddish fins. |
| ~ sucker | flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws. |
| con | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. con | an argument opposed to a proposal. |
| ~ argument, statement | a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true.; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true" |
| n. (person) | 2. con, convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird | a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison. |
| ~ lifer | a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment. |
| ~ captive, prisoner | a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war. |
| ~ trusty | a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges. |
| n. (act) | 3. bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. |
| ~ sting operation | a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals). |
| ~ swindle, cheat, rig | the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme.; "that book is a fraud" |
| v. (social) | 4. bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize | deprive of by deceit.; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" |
| ~ short, short-change | cheat someone by not returning him enough money. |
| ~ cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit.; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. con, learn, memorise, memorize | commit to memory; learn by heart.; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" |
| ~ understudy, alternate | be an understudy or alternate for a role. |
| ~ hit the books, study | learn by reading books.; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now" |
| adv. | 6. con | in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc..; "much was written pro and con" |
| dupe | | |
| gyp | | |
| swindle | | |
| n. (act) | 1. cheat, rig, swindle | the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme.; "that book is a fraud" |
| ~ cozenage, scam | a fraudulent business scheme. |
| ~ fraud | intentional deception resulting in injury to another person. |
| ~ bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, con, sting | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. |
| ~ pyramiding | a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated. |
| ~ holdout | the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later. |
| ~ swiz | British slang for a swindle. |
| ~ shell game, thimblerig | a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under. |
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