Fooled
[fu:ld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Fool
Editor: Tess
Examples
- His head was not strong: the knaves he lived amongst fooled him beyond anything I ever heard. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If I renounce my Order, for thee alone will I renounce it--Ambition shall remain mine, if thou refuse my love; I will not be fooled on all hands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Such genuine powers do not absorb our political interest because we are fooled by the regalia of office. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I don't want my leg fooled with by a first captain. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This brought the corporal along the half mile, only to find that he was fooled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ah--you'll borrow from Selden or Rosedale--and take your chances of fooling them as you've fooled me! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I don't care how you settled your score with them--if you fooled 'em I'm that much to the good. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But the more frequent outcome is a confused and divided state of interest in which one is fooled as to one's own real intent. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Tess