Synonyms for cheating
cheat·ing

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1. cheating

   A fraud is an act of deliberate deception with the design of securing something by taking unfair advantage of another. A deceit or deception may be designed merely to gain some end of one's own, with no intent of harming another; an imposition, to take some small advantage of another, or simply to make another ridiculous. An imposture is designed to obtain money, credit, or position to which one is not entitled, and may be practised by a street beggar or by the pretender to a throne. All action that is not honest is dishonesty, but the term dishonesty is generally applied in business, politics, etc., to deceitful practises which are not directly criminal. Fraud includes deceit, but deceit may not reach the gravity of fraud; a cheat is of the nature of fraud, but of a petty sort; a swindle is more serious than a cheat, involving larger values and more flagrant dishonesty. Fraud is commonly actionable at law; cheating and swindling are for the most part out of the reach of legal proceedings. Treachery is chiefly used of dishonesty in matters of friendship, social relations, government, or war; treachery may be more harmful than fraud, but is not so gross, and is not ordinarily open to legal redress. Treason is a specific form of treachery of a subject to the government to which he owes allegiance, and is definable and punishable at law. Compare ARTIFICE; DECEPTION.

   Synonyms:
   artifice, cheat, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, fraud, imposition, imposture, swindle, swindling, treachery, treason, trick

   Antonyms:
   fairness, good faith, honesty, integrity, truth, uprightness

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1. cheat, cheatingadjective

   a deception for profit to yourself

   Synonyms:
   cheat, cheater, darnel, rig, chess, bearded darnel, deceiver, beguiler, tare, trickster, slicker, swindle

   Antonyms:
   just, fair, faithful

2. adulterous, cheating(a), two-timing(a)adjective

   not faithful to a spouse or lover

   "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend"

   Antonyms:
   just, fair, faithful

3. cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlikeadjective

   violating accepted standards or rules

   "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"

   Antonyms:
   fair, faithful, just

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1. List of paraphrases for "cheating":

   fraud, cheat, deception, cheater, deceit, infidel, infidelity, deceiving, unbeliever, truffle

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1. Michael Heemels:

   At a certain point, I lost my grip on reality and was living in a fantasy world, fooling and cheating everyone around me.

2. Kathy Kennedy:

   They can only win by cheating. That's what they're doing in there right now, they're a bunch of cowards.

3. Carol Sipperly:

   Anthony Allen and Anthony Conti were cheating, they were bankers giving themselves and their bank an unfair advantage for years, continuously.

4. Rob McDuff:

   This was not a case with just one reversal for prosecutorial misconduct, but four. That is unprecedented in the history of the American legal system, in other words, every time Doug Evans won a conviction, he did it by cheating. After each trial, Jim Hood's office tried to defend Doug Evans on appeal, and each time they lost.

5. Xiong Bingqi:

   There's absolutely no doubt, cheating on the gaokao exam diminishes the exam’s authoritativeness, and could even impact the credibility of the government.