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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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How to use cheating in a sentence?

  1. Dan Savage:

    A wife discovers her husband is into Asian bondage stuff. ' Is that who he is ? Is he a kinky person ? I don't know him anymore !' we have a hard-wired desire for variety. Porn allows you to scratch that itch without physically cheating on your partner.

  2. Edward Dunnigan:

    Students are aware of the cheating scandals and nervous that their scores will be canceled after spending so many hours preparing for the examination.

  3. Ernest Hemingway:

    The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

  4. Woody Allen:

    I was thrown out of NYU for cheating - with the Dean's wife.

  5. Chelsie Cline:

    I was told my husband was cheating on me with [ one of the victims ], and that Jenna Porterfield had broken up with Jenna Porterfield previous boyfriend two days ago, and he went crazy and shot them all.


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