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cheating
Synonyms and Antonyms of cheating
- a conscienceless adventuress who never earned anything except through cheating
equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication
chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, 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
- she swore that if there was ever any cheating, she'd leave in a heartbeat
Synonyms and Antonyms of cheating
- 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
beating, bilking, bleeding, chiseling (or chiselling), chousing, conning, cozening, defrauding, diddling, doing, doing in, euchring, fiddling, fleecing, flimflamming, gaffing, gypping, hosing [slang], hustling, mulcting, nobbling [British slang], plucking, reaming, ripping off, rooking, screwing, shaking down, shortchanging, shorting, skinning, skunking, squeezing, sticking, stiffing, stinging, suckering, swindling, thimblerigging, victimizing
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