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cheat

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of cheat

a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
  • a cheat at cards
Synonyms of cheat

bilk, bilker, cheater, chiseler (or chiseller), confidence man, cozener, defrauder, dodger, finagler, hoaxer, scammer, shark, sharper, swindler, trickster
Words Related to cheat

double-crosser, double-dealer

bluffer, charlatan, fake, faker, humbug, impostor (or imposter), mountebank, phony (also phoney), pretender, quack, ringer, sham

adventurer, fox, knave, prankster, rascal, rogue

slicker, smoothy (or smoothie), wheeler-dealer

plotter, schemer, sneak, sneaker

cheat

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of cheat

1 to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal
  • Students who cheat on tests end up never knowing anything.
Synonyms of cheat

chicane, finagle, fudge
Words Related to cheat

crib

color, distort, falsify, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp

doctor, fake, tamper (with)

elaborate, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, magnify, pad, stretch

dodge, evade, hedge
2 to be sexually unfaithful
  • He suspects that his girlfriend is cheating on him.
Synonyms of cheat

philander, step out
Words Related to cheat

cat (around), fool around, fornicate, play (around), tomcat (around), womanize

copulate, couple, lie, make out, mate, sleep

lust
3 to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of
  • The daredevil survived his plunge over the falls with barely a scratch, having cheated death once again.
Synonyms of cheat

disappoint, dissatisfy, fail, let down
Words Related to cheat

bum (out), chagrin, discontent, disgruntle, displease, distress, upset

disenchant, disillusion

deceive, delude, mock
Near Antonyms of cheat

fulfill (or fulfil)

gladden
Antonyms of cheat

content, gratify, satisfy
4 to rob by the use of trickery or threats
  • a despicable confidence man who heartlessly cheated elderly people out of their savings
Synonyms of cheat

beat, bilk, bleed, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, do, do in, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hustle, mulct, pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, swindle, victimize
Words Related to cheat

extort, wrench, wrest, wring

clip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soak

exploit, milk

deceive, dupe, fool, gull, trick

rope (in)

betray, double-cross

bamboozle, fast-talk
Phrases Synonymous with cheat

sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners

Synonym Discussion of cheat

cheat, cozen, defraud, swindle mean to get something by dishonesty or deception. cheat suggests using trickery that escapes observation.
    • cheated me out of a dollar
cozen implies artful persuading or flattering to attain a thing or a purpose.
    • always able to cozen her grandfather out of a few dollars
defraud stresses depriving one of his or her rights and usually connotes deliberate perversion of the truth.
    • defrauded of her inheritance by an unscrupulous lawyer
swindle implies large-scale cheating by misrepresentation or abuse of confidence.
    • swindled of their savings by con artists

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