patsy

Example Sentences

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As Warren Buffett wrote, “If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

After all, she played the role of the getaway driver when he fled the process server last year, so clearly she's got a history of being a willing patsy for her husband's shady behavior.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2023

Many journalists have anointed him both—a destroyer of worlds but also a deal-maker, a patsy but also a conquering hero.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2023

Games like this are designed to inspire dreams, the destruction of a nonconference patsy generating optimism for what’s ahead.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2022

Without even perfunctory regrets at the man’s passing, he accused Luthuli of being a patsy of the white man, mainly on the grounds that the chief had accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela