cheating

Plural: cheatings

Noun

• a deception for profit to yourself
• An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
• The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.

Verb

• deprive somebody of something by deceit
• defeat someone through trickery or deceit
• engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
• be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
• present participle and gerund of cheat

Adjective Satellite

• not faithful to a spouse or lover
• violating accepted standards or rules

Adj

• Unsporting or underhand.
• Unfaithful or adulterous.

Synonyms

adulterous, betray, cheat, cheat on, chicane, chisel, chouse, cuckold, dirty, foul, jockey, rip off, screw, shaft, two-timing, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, wander

Related Words

Cheating in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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