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cheat
Synonyms and Antonyms of cheat
- a cheat at cards
bluffer, charlatan, fake, faker, humbug, impostor (or imposter), mountebank, phony (also phoney), pretender, quack, quacksalver, ringer, sham
adventurer, fox, gamesman, knave, prankster, rascal, rogue
fast-talker, slick, slicker, slickster, slyboots, smoothy (or smoothie), wheeler-dealer
plotter, schemer, sneak, sneaker
blackleg, cardsharp (or cardsharper)
cheat
Synonyms and Antonyms of cheat
- students who cheat on tests end up never knowing anything
- he suspects that his girlfriend is cheating on him
- the daredevil survived his plunge over the falls with barely a scratch, having cheated death once again
- a despicable confidence man who heartlessly cheated elderly people out of their savings
beat, bilk, bleed, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
Synonym Discussion of cheat
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- cheated me out of a dollar
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- always able to cozen her grandfather out of a few dollars
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- defrauded of her inheritance by an unscrupulous lawyer
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- swindled of their savings by con artists
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