cheater
Noun
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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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