put-up

Describes a person who is easily deceived, tricked, or taken advantage of; often used in the phrase 'put-up job' to mean a prearranged scheme.

• 🇫🇷Se dit d'une personne facile à tromper, duper ou exploiter ; également utilisé dans l'expression 'put-up job' pour désigner une machination préparée à l'avance.

1. Planned secretly C1 informal british

   Arranged or organized in a deceptive or dishonest way, often to trick someone.

   • The whole event was a put-up job to embarrass him.
   • She suspected the competition was a put-up affair.
   • They discovered the put-up scheme only after the damage was done.

   🇫🇷manigancé

   Synonymes: contrivedfixedframedrigged

   Antonymes: impromptuspontaneousunplanned

• more put-up comparative form
• most put-up superlative form