sucker
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Synonyms & Antonyms for sucker
Synonyms: Noun
chump, dupe, gull, mug [chiefly British], patsy, pigeon, pushover, sap, soft touch, tool
Synonyms: Verb
bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on [chiefly British], hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, snow, spoof, string along, suck in, take in, trick
Antonyms: Verb
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Examples of sucker in a Sentence
Noun
He's just a con artist looking for another sucker. That kid is a mean little sucker.Verb
a notorious imposter who at one time suckered a lot of people into believing that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia suckered millions of desperate dieters with their grossly inflated claims of successful weight loss
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
If an art-house film gets credit for what commercial movies have already done much better, then Katherineās victims arenāt the only suckers here. — Charles Taylor, MSNBC Newsweek, "Cannes' Favorite 'Lady Macbeth' Isn't Daring, but It Might Be Racist," 17 July 2017 As Wallace, his daughter and others were sucker-punched, stomped and beaten, the pavilionās security team stood by and watched, the complaint says. — Michael Gordon And Maria David, charlotteobserver, "Brutal beating of NASCAR driver after Rascal Flatts concert prompts lawsuit," 30 June 2017 But weāre suckers for a pretty face (and 495 horsepower), so the orange roadster left Eisenhower Place after 40,000 miles with a letter of recommendation and an invitation for Jaguar to send us its next creation. — Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver, "2017 Jaguar XE," 29 June 2017 These nomadic vamps got a scent for Bella, and threw life into chaos for both the Cullens and the wolves destined to protect humans from their blood-sucker nemeses. — Maria Tallarico, Cosmopolitan, "The Supporting Cast of Twilight: Where Are They Now?!," 28 June 2017 The Battle of the Bands sequence takes it one step further, manifesting the dueling band-joesā songs as a pair of battling kaiju who proceed to very nearly (and literally) tear the roof off the sucker. — Keith Staskiewicz, Billboard, "With 'Baby Driver,' Edgar Wright Joins Elite DJ-Director Pantheon Alongside Tarantino & Scorsese," 28 June 2017 The Kiwis took a 6-1 lead into Monday's fifth day of racing in the 2017 event and landed the sucker punch with a win in race nine to clinch the oldest trophy in sport for the first time since the successful defence of 2000. — CNN, "America's Cup: Team New Zealand gains revenge over Oracle Team USA," 26 June 2017 Grainy video of a sucker-punching president neatly captures a shift that has transpired slowly and then mind-bogglingly quickly in recent years: Hatred has come into the mainstream. — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, "When Hatred Is a Joke," 3 July 2017 What Bovada might be looking for is sucker money from MLS dreamers longing for the league to get a world superstar at least at the end of his prime instead of clearly past his prime. — David J. Neal, miamiherald, "Ronaldo in China, MLS, Milan? You wanna bet?," 20 June 2017Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Instead, the show bubbles over with goofy in-jokes about product placement, bad money management, and the highly specific Hollywood danger of getting suckered by oneās scheming influencer spouse. — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, "The Niche Celebrity Satire of āBH90210ā," 2 Sep. 2019 To fall in line with their line of thinking is to acquiesce on choice and be suckered into believing the tired sentiment that only another old white man can defeat Sweet Potato Saddam. — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, "Opinion: Iām Not Overlooking Joe Bidenās Gaffes Just Because Donald Trump Is A Racist Simpleton," 14 Aug. 2019 Unlike The Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) tree found in middle America, bottlebrush buckeye is a vigorous, suckering shrub. — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, "Try this trio of pollinator plants for your Kentucky summer garden," 19 July 2019 Apparently the Morouns think Mr. Trump can be suckered out of it. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "Morouned Over the Detroit River," 15 July 2018 KrebsOnSecurity said that a fraud investigator for a midsized bank had several customers who got suckered after searching for the customer support line for Amazon. — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, "Amazon Prime Day: Gift cards, coupons and other scams to watch for," 14 July 2018 In the case of the filibuster, Democrats really do have the power in their hands, and truly have nobody else to blame if they get suckered into handicapping themselves. — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, "Chuck Schumer Is Secretly Sabotaging the Next Democratic President," 28 June 2018 Hereās what to expect in the inevitable event that you are suckered by a subway discount code. — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, "The Best Carry-On Luggage Can Take a Beating," 14 June 2018 The commercial web steams on as a hopped-up, strung-out system of hyperlinks, engineered to mix Barnumesque humbug with authentic reports, and to overlap ads and newsāthe better to sucker the eye. — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, "The Truth-Affirming Powers of a Good, Old-Fashioned Netflix Binge," 23 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sucker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.