To cheat is to use sneaky, unfair methods to get something you want. No one's going to want to play with you if you always cheat at mini golf.
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
Noun
a deception for profit to yourself
Noun
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
Noun
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
Noun
weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
Noun
weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
Verb
defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
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"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
Verb
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who''s chiseling on the side?"
Verb
be sexually unfaithful to one''s partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
n.
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of
fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
n.
One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a
cheater.
n.
A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; --
called also chess. See Chess.
n.
The obtaining of property from another by an intentional
active distortion of the truth.
n.
To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to
swindle.
n.
To beguile.
v. i.
To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
n.
Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
Cheat
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat.2.
Airy wonders, which cheats interpret.3.
Cheat
I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.2.
To cheat winter of its dreariness.
Cheat
Cheat
Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste.
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
To practice fraud or trickery;
Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
Usage Examples
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.
Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.
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Other Usage ExamplesDo not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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