Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disposed to cheat or associated with cheating; fraudulent; dishonest: applied to persons.
- False; deceptive; made or fitted to defraud: applied to things.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An act of
deception ,fraud ,trickery ,imposture , orimposition . - adjective
Unsporting orunderhand . - adjective
Unfaithful oradulterous . - verb Present participle of
cheat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not faithful to a spouse or lover
- adjective violating accepted standards or rules
- noun a deception for profit to yourself
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Examples
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Mr Evans said: "My reference to the word cheating was an inappropriate term to use," he said.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph John-Paul Ford Rojas 2011
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Mr Evans said: "My reference to the word cheating was an inappropriate term to use," he said.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph John-Paul Ford Rojas 2011
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"My reference to the word cheating was an inappropriate term to use," he said.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011
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Mousavi, himself, has written an open letter to the people of Iran, congratulating them for their high and historic turnout and condemning what he calls the cheating, the official manipulation of the results.
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A Democratic senator who blasts the White House for failing to take on what he calls cheating China.
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For to himself, to his own thinking, that which we call cheating was not dishonesty.
The Prime Minister 1876
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For to himself, to his own thinking, that which we call cheating was not dishonesty.
The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1848
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Under pressure from the right-wing press to call those who fiddle benefits "cheats" literally, there have been tabloid articles demanding to know why he will not use the word "cheating" to describe welfare fraud, Mr Miliband laid into the whole benefit system in a way that would not raise too many eyebrows at a Conservative conference:
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"The alleged use of the word 'cheating' appears to have been injudicious, as well as inaccurate; we shall investigate this further."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Holly Watt 2011
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And if calling a relationship "open" takes the term cheating and turns it into "being free," think swingers then maybe its not such a bad idea after all.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Danielle Sinay 2011
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