Gulled

A report to that effect, cut out of a newspaper, was circulated amongst the prisoners, and their indignation was great at the way in which the public were "gulled" about themselves and prison treatment. ❋ A Merchant - Anonymous (N/A)

This must be what A.H. Keene referred to when he said, "The British public were also dumb, and with that infinite capacity for being gulled which is so remarkable in a people proud of their common sense, acquiesced in everything." ❋ Solomon Tshekisho (1916)

I tried him in several ways, and found that he could be "gulled" more easily than any of the other messengers. ❋ Allan Pinkerton (1856)

So ended the memorable 14th of August: it will be, doubtless, remembered by many with far from pleasant feelings; and some who have been "gulled" in England may thank Mr. Petersen that a carrier-pigeon freighted with a cock-and-bull story of blood, fire, wreck, and murder, was not despatched on that memorable day. ❋ Sherard Osborn (1848)

Then the satirical meaning hidden beneath Pere Fourchon's apparent guilelessness came back to him, and he owned himself "gulled" by the Burgundian beggar. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

In each picture, a well-heeled youth is gulled by beguiling fraudsters. ❋ James Hall (2011)

That argument sustained a fatal blow when the President of the NPR Foundation, Ron Schiller, was gulled into letting his hair down and was caught on tape speaking his mind to guerilla video activists posing as prospective donors. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And why do reporters (and editors) let themselves be gulled, time and again? ❋ Robert Davey (2010)

Energy companies may somehow be gulled into going along with the scheme, given the relish with which big government and big business bed down together (see the Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act), but they will really be "volunteering" to help keep higher ed fat and happy on behalf of their customers, who won't be polled on the matter. ❋ Sean Paige (2010)

Meanwhile in the play's baggy double love sub plot, Captain Brazen is gulled by Melinda's maid, Lucy (Kathryn Drysdale), and Plume is being tricked by the heiress Silvia (Nancy Carroll, so delicious you want to gobble her up) who disguises herself as a soldier in order to get her man and overcome her father's objections to the match. ❋ Unknown (2012)

He gulled Speaker John Boehner in particular with promises of sincerity, only to demand $1 trillion in tax increases that House Republicans could never pass without violating their own campaign promises. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It doesn't want to admit that it has been gulled—a story that's all too rooted in reality. ❋ Edward Jay Epstein (2012)

That kind of politics is sustained by the narrowness of the categories into which Americans have been gulled into thinking. ❋ Carl Pope (2011)

The British tried bribing the Afghan tribes wholesale but inevitably got gulled by opposing warlords ganging up against them, to drive the going rate up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To work, they require of readers a willingness to be fooled, to be gulled into a world of walking trees and talking lions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Boehner and McConnell were gulled into going behind closed doors with the President, who dragged out negotiations and later emerged to sandbag them with his blame-the-GOP and soak-the-rich re-election strategy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Keynesian elixir of transfer payments and temporary tax cuts offered only an ephemeral boost to growth, just as it did in 2008 when President Bush was gulled into trying a similar if smaller gambit. ❋ Unknown (2012)