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Synonyms for cheat
Synonyms: Verb
Synonyms: Noun
bilk, bilker, cheater, chiseler (or chiseller), confidence man, cozener, defrauder, dodger, fakir, finagler, fraudster [chiefly British], hoaxer, scammer, scamster, shark, sharper, sharpie (or sharpy), skinner, swindler, tricker, trickster
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Examples of cheat in a Sentence
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The players were accused of cheating. I had to cheat in order to solve the puzzle. The store cheats its customers through false advertising. They cheated him out of a fair deal. a heroin addict who has cheated death many times
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The actress pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to pay $15,000 to a fake charity that facilitated cheating when her daughter took the SATs for college. — Kristina Sgueglia And Holly Yan, CNN, "Felicity Huffman explains her role in the college cheating scandal days before she'll be sentenced," 9 Sep. 2019 Deveny relinquished her law license in 2018 and since has been criminally charged in state and federal court with allegedly cheating a list of clients out of settlement checks. — oregonlive, "Oregon State Bar opens misconduct investigation into Terry Bean’s criminal defense lawyer, Derek Ashton," 6 Sep. 2019 Matt has also not responded to Gina’s cheating allegations. — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, "RHOC's Gina Kirschenheiter Hopes to 'Find Peace' with Ex After Domestic Violence Charge: Source," 6 Sep. 2019 For some, taking a chance on love after cheating is not just scary, but exhausting. — Jackie Pilossoph, chicagotribune.com, "Column: How to recover from infidelity in a relationship," 5 Sep. 2019 Denver is the only city in the country that asks license holders suspected of cheating to sign affidavits. — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, "Some Denver short-term rental owners are giving up their licenses, rather than risk criminal charges," 4 Sep. 2019 Walled Lake businessman Johni Semma, a restaurateur and former owner of The Coliseum — a massive, Egyptian-themed strip club on 8 Mile — pleaded guilty this week to cheating the government out of taxes and failing to file a tax return in 2012. — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, "Strip club owner's cheating cost him $1.8 million — and more," 31 Aug. 2019 Let’s face it: losing is rough, and the other guy totally cheated. — Matthew Gault, Time, "Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins Reveals His Top Tips for Video Game Domination," 22 Aug. 2019 Hence the concept of cheating the system and getting away with it. — Ciku Kimeria, Quartz Africa, "The legacy of DJ Arafat and how he took the Coupé Décalé sound to the world," 17 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
So, 19 years in the game may be enough – even if Morton finally has the cheat codes. — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, "Rays All-Star Charlie Morton, peaking at 35, has no regrets about long road to stardom," 27 Aug. 2019 But there is no Max Martin or Shellback here — superproducers who helped guide her recent pop tracks — which means no cheat code. — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, "Taylor Swift Emerges From the Darkness Unbroken on ‘Lover’," 23 Aug. 2019 The extra patrols are still in force, intimidating would-be fare cheats and staving off other forms of crime. — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, "Needles on wane in BART trains and stations, another sign of fentanyl’s rise," 7 July 2019 For all the caterwauling about steroid cheats soiling the sanctity of the record books, where are those cries now that pitchers are forced to throw slick Superballs that even Major League Baseball finally, grudgingly admitted were juiced? — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, "Giants get six homers — three from Mike Yastrzemski — in crazy 11-inning victory," 17 Aug. 2019 Okay, this one’s a bit of a cheat, because there are simply no bad times to train through Switzerland. — Kaitlin Menza, Town & Country, "Here’s How to Take a Train Trip Through the Swiss Alps," 20 July 2019 To many runners and race historians, Ms. Ruiz was less a feminist trailblazer than a brazen course-cutter and an unrepentant cheat. — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, "Rosie Ruiz, who ‘won’ Boston Marathon but skipped most of the race, dies at 66," 7 Aug. 2019 Ryan Braun, another Biogenesis cheat who was suspended, still is booed. — San Francisco Chronicle, "Lovable Bartolo Colon gets a pass, unlike other PED users," 17 Apr. 2018 And this time around, for Nadella, no cheat codes or power-ups will save the day.