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cheating

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of cheating

1 the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
  • a conscienceless fraud who never earned anything except through cheating
Synonyms of cheating

artifice, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness
Words Related to cheating

equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication

chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wile

falsehood, falsity, fib, untruth

hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facedness

artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdness

treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness

covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness

oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness
Near Antonyms of cheating

candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness

honesty, probity

dependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness

decency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness
Antonyms of cheating

artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity
2 a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse
  • promised that there would be no cheating
Synonyms of cheating

adultery, infidelity, two-timing, unfaithfulness
Words Related to cheating

promiscuity

disloyalty, faithlessness, falseness, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, treachery

affair (also affaire), fling, love, love affair, romance

intrigue

attachment, infatuation

entanglement, flirtation

liaison, passion
Near Antonyms of cheating

allegiance, constancy, dedication, devotedness, devotion, fealty, loyalty, steadfastness
Antonyms of cheating

faithfulness, fidelity

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