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Cheating   /tʃˈitɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Cheat  v. t.  (past & past part. cheated; pres. part. cheating)  
1.
To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. "I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island."
2.
To beguile. "To cheat winter of its dreariness."
Synonyms: To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent; beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach; delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.


Cheat  v. i.  To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.





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"Cheating" Quotes from Famous Books



... but if her face were equal to her figure, to hide it was cheating mortals out of a pleasure. The other was a maid, a pert little baggage who ...
— The Brown Mask • Percy J. Brebner
... Heard it, and sent for Naaman and said, "A girl among the slaves that you brought in From Israel has spoken a strange thing, Of one Elisha, a prophet whom they obey, Saying that he could bid the blemish off That is cheating Syria of her proudest man. Now therefore journey to him, and I will send Word to Israel's king, that he shall bless Favours from us in whom his fortune lies, Bidding him call this prophet to your cause. Go, and the love of Syria ...
— Preludes 1921-1922 • John Drinkwater
... theft, as I hear is common among modern thieves. They were ready for anything, from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter. Montigny, for instance, had neglected neither of these extremes, and we find him accused of cheating at games of hazard on the one hand, and on the other of the murder of one Thevenin Pensete in a house by the Cemetery of St. John. If time had only spared us some particulars, might not this last have furnished us with the matter of a ...
— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson
... capable of cheating his best friend, even the devil, I will take his letter into consideration; but it having taken him sixteen years to make up his mind to do a right action, it may take me as many days to come to a decision on ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... must not give in, but must wrap yourself up; for you have to discover a device for abstracting, and a means of cheating. ...
— The Clouds • Aristophanes


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