Patsy

//ˈpætsi//

"Patsy" in a Sentence (9 examples)

Layla saw Fadil as a patsy with a wallet.

Layla saw Sami as a patsy with a wallet.

He was a patsy set up to take the fall.

I'm just a patsy!

Was Lee Harvey Oswald really a patsy?

The con artists needed a patsy to take the fall, so they framed an innocent bystander.

Tom was too trusting and became a patsy for online scammers.

Tom acts like a tough guy, but he’s really weak—a patsy, a sucker, a pushover who folds like a house of cards and lets everyone walk all over him.

And now it's quite obvious that instead of Mr Rumsfeld and Mr. Cheney listening attentively to Mr Blair's sage advice, they've simply been using him as a patsy—a convenient fig-leaf.

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