cheat
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(noun) a deception for profit to yourself |
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Synonyms: cheating |
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Related Words: deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, gerrymander |
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(verb) defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit |
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Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
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Related Words: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
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(verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme" |
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Synonyms: beat, rip off, sell short |
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Related Words: beguile, bilk, bunco, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, fleece, gazump, gyp, hoodwink, hook, juggle, mulct, nobble, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, rook, soak, surcharge, swindle, victimise, victimize, welsh, whipsaw |
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(verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud |
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Related Words: cook, cozen, cozen, crib, deceive, delude, fake, falsify, fudge, job, lead on, manipulate, misrepresent, rig, set up, shark, wangle |
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(noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme: "that book is a fraud" |
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Synonyms: swindle |
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Related Words: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, cozenage, flimflam, fraud, gyp, holdout, hustle, scam, shell game, sting, swiz, thimblerig |
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(verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" |
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Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
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Related Words: cozen, deceive, delude, fool around, lead on, play around, twotime |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true |
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Synonyms: cheater, deceiver, trickster |
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Related Words: betrayer, bluffer, charlatan, chiseler, chiseller, counterfeiter, dissembler, dodger, double-crosser, double-dealer, fake, faker, falsifier, figurehead, forger, fortune hunter, fox, fraud, front, front man, gouger, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, imposter, impostor, liar, mountebank, nominal head, obscurantist, offender, phoney, phony, pretender, prevaricator, pseud, pseudo, role player, sandbagger, sham, sharper, sharpie, sharpy, slyboots, straw man, swindler, traitor, wrongdoer |
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(noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat |
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Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess |
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Related Words: brome, bromegrass |
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(noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous |
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Synonyms: Lolium temulentum, bearded darnel, darnel, tare |
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Related Words: rye grass, ryegrass |
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