cheat
Noun
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Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land;
Seeds sometimes considered poisonous (synset 112145700) -
Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat (synset 112131755)
is a type of: brome, bromegrass - any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regionssame as: bromus secalinus, chess
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Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true (synset 110017621)
subtypes:
- bluffer, four-flusher - a person who tries to bluff other people
- chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
- decoy, steerer - a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
- dodger, fox, slyboots - a shifty deceptive person
- betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer - a person who says one thing and does another
- defalcator, embezzler, peculator - someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
- falsifier - someone who falsifies
- finagler, wangler - a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods
- counterfeiter, forger - someone who makes copies illegally
- fortune hunter - a person who seeks wealth through marriage
- figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman - a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- imitator, impersonator - someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another
- fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer - a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- liar, prevaricator - a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
- misleader - someone who leads astray (often deliberately)
- charlatan, mountebank - a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
- obscurantist - a person who is deliberately vague
- sandbagger - someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you
- two-timer - someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else
- utterer - someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins
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The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme (synset 100781784)
"that book is a fraud"is a type of: fraud - intentional deception resulting in injury to another personsubtypes:
- cozenage, scam - a fraudulent business scheme
- bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- gip, gyp - (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating
- pyramiding - a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated
- holdout - the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later
- swiz - British slang for a swindle
- shell game, thimblerig - a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
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A deception for profit to yourself (synset 100755767)
subtypes: gerrymander - an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)same as: cheating
Verb
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Deprive somebody of something by deceit (synset 202579332)
"The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"subtypes:
- gazump - raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
- cozen - cheat or trick
- fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge - rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize - deprive of by deceit
- gip, gyp - (sometimes offensive) to cheat or swindle
- bilk - cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
- beat, bunk - avoid paying
- whipsaw - victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
- welch, welsh - cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
- beguile, hoodwink, juggle - influence by slyness
- Defeat someone through trickery or deceit (synset 201107035)
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Engage in deceitful behavior;
Practice trickery or fraud (synset 202580591)"Who's chiseling on the side?"subtypes:- job - profit privately from public office and official business
- shark - play the shark; act with trickery
- rig, set up - arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- cozen - act with artful deceit
- crib - use a crib, as in an exam
- cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle - tamper, with the purpose of deception
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Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage (synset 202582588)
"She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"subtypes:
- two-time - carry on a romantic relationship with two people at the same time
- fool around, play around - commit adultery
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