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UK
/tʃˈiːt/
]
[ US /ˈtʃit/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃit/ ]
VERB
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
-
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
Who's chiseling on the side? -
deprive somebody of something by deceit
This salesman ripped us off!
They chiseled me out of my money
we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme
The con-man beat me out of $50 -
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
She cheats on her husband
Might her husband be wandering?
NOUN
-
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
that book is a fraud - a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
How To Use cheat In A Sentence
- In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina.
- The referee said I was a liar and a cheat, but my foot was injured at that time.
- Payoffs and kickbacks and cheating and lying to the public are a way of life.
- It was so obvious they have had contact since NZ and this was a scripted farce to deter us from the fact that Jason Mesnick the most hated man in America and his ice princess walk of shamer Molly WERE CHEATING. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
- Cohen claimed that criminals posing as salesmen cheat Americans out of billions of dollars each year.
- Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who chairs an investigative subcommittee that will hold a hearing on the report today, said the Obama administration should "get on with it and actually debar the worst of the tax cheats from the contractor workforce. GAO report: Tax cheats received billions in stimulus funds
- Trouble broke out in the match when one of the players called a member of the other team a cheat.
- It's a real dilemma but please don't think of cheating or tricking your partner. The Sun
- cheating is wrong
- There might be a temptation to cheat if students sit too close together.