noun
definition
A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.
Examples of patsy in a Sentence
Patsy, while incarcerated, still had a say in the matter.
Patsy Boyd was just released from prison.
His only comment of note was that Patsy, while obviously exhausted, seemed especially cheerful— "pleased with herself" was how he'd described her.
When told Patsy Boyd was traveling alone, Fred nodded with a knowing smile.
As for Martha's father, Patsy's comments as recorded on one statement she grudgingly gave the authorities listed him as "some john I did for a couple of bucks drug money."
Yeah, everyone knew Patsy.
They think Patsy Boyd stashed the kid with a relative or a buddy and the girl's okay.
Patsy got mad at one of the women where we were staying so she swiped her car and we took off.
I knew we couldn't get away for long but Patsy needed to leave and wanted me to go with her.
Patsy Boyd Cynthia took one look at the note and began to cry.
I just feel so badly for Patsy.
No, Martha Boyd had no idea where her mother was nor did she know the woman's destination, presuming Patsy had one.
Patsy was still on the loose but she wasn't considered a threat to anyone.
I took Martha in 'cause I owed Patsy a favor for some stuff.
Patsy'll screw up again and be sent back to the slammer.
Cynthia asked "They were old cigarettes—not like Patsy smokes," she said and then added quickly, "gotta go."
You said she knows Patsy from being a guard at Cañon City.
His only comment of note was that Patsy, while obviously exhausted, seemed especially cheerful— "pleased with herself" was how he'd described her.
We got to talk a lot—Patsy and me.
Martha bore no scars from her hectic July adventure and when news came that mother Patsy was back in the clink, she accepted it without reservation.
Music ranges from patsy cline to Pink with everything else inbetween... ... .
And, with a new sizeable competitor in broadband, BT will now have a patsy to draw Ofcom's regulatory fire.
Oh and I nominate Paul Davis (or nominated patsy) to ask them because the board all hate him anyway!
This makes me Absolutely certain that the fabulous pair will make a patsy out of the Russians and use Absolute in future.
Despite attempts to portray him as otherwise, Professor Bain was no government patsy.
Chris missed but Patsy failed to get a rush to peg after making rover and pegged one ball out.
Geoff Hoon, the US patsy, told the Royal United Services Institute that he intends to restructure the British armed forces.
His mother, Patsy, is a choreographer and Patrick Swayze studied at the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School.
His mother, Patsy, was a successful dancer and choreographer and his father, Jesse, was an engineer.
From there, she toured with several popular country stars including Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline.
Haggard, along with artists like Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Sr, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline really transcend genres - they just plain make good music that just so happens to be called country.
Written by Randy Brooks in 1978, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer was recorded and released for the first time in 1979 by Elmo and Patsy Shropshire.
Afterward, they made a deal with Brooks to record the song and pressed up a run of seven inch singles, which they released through their own label, called Elmo and Patsy.
The song and its story of a grandmother who overindulges in eggnog, leaves a party to return home for her medication and is taken out by Santa's reindeer became an audience favorite at Elmo and Patsy shows.
This Patsy Cline classic is the quintessential country love song.
It was unclear if this action was prompted by Patsy Boyd herself or just some do-gooder trying to clear her desk of problems.
Martha seems to have a pretty good read on Patsy and she's always been candid talking about her.
He could lie and tell them he was a police officer or sheriff and maybe squeeze some tidbit of information about recently released mom Patsy, but surely Fitzgerald would find out and tank his election ambitions, if those aspirations weren't already six feet under.
Cynthia asked "They were old cigarettes—not like Patsy smokes," she said and then added quickly, "gotta go."
They released Patsy and the state took her daughter to try reuniting them.
So weird Patsy got a walk.
Patsy Boyd apparently lifted a set of keys from a worker in the lodgings where she and Martha were temporarily quartered and made her escape in a twenty-year old Buick.
No, Dean had no idea what might attract Patsy to drive across the plains.
You said she knows Patsy from being a guard at Cañon City.
Then, as she reached her vehicle she turned and added, Sorry about Patsy snatching the kid.
By the time he was on line, introductions were over and a male voice was discussing the search for Patsy Boyd and Martha.
He claimed to have been picked up by Patsy Boyd while hitchhiking down state.
He ran when Patsy ditched the Buick because she ran and he had no idea what was going on.
There was no young girl with Patsy Boyd nor did she mention one.
He had driven most of the two hours they were together while Patsy slept.