patsy


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Synonyms for patsy

a person who is easily deceived or victimized

one who is made an object of blame

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Synonyms for patsy

a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

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Quite different it was from the perjuries that had shouted aloud from the perjuries of Patsy and his two witnesses.
Both Patsy's attorney and the Prosecuting Attorney rested their cases, letting everything go before the Court without argument.
The papers said I shook hands with Patsy Horan after the trial.
"If you are a gentleman, get up--that's what Patsy told me, you know."
And all the time Watson exposited the way Patsy Horan had done it.
Patsy's my mum's name but here it's odd, people from work or know me from home as Patsy, but I've already introduced others to me as Julie.
As the novel opens, it's 1998, and Patsy is still in love with her childhood friend Cicely, who moved to America several years earlier.
Joanna, 72, who played Absolutely Fabulous fashion editor Patsy Stone, said she quickly talked Saunders out of killing off the much-loved characters.
Four hours of drinking appeared to take a toll on 51-year-old Patsy, as she was seen burying her head in her hands before calling it a day.
Patsy, dubbed a serial womaniser, wrote one autobigraphy during his lifetime, the now highly collectable Crumpet All The Way.
Dogs have to spend two weeks in quarantine when moving countries, but after a week Patsy was struck down by a mystery illness that left her paralysed.
After nursing them back to health, the pair have been Patsy's companions since.
Patsy, 42, seems to be settling in nicely on America's laid back West Coast after revealing in April that she is hanging up her hoop earrings and heading to Tinseltown.