cheat - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a deception for profit to yourself

Synonyms

• cheat
• cheating

More generic

• deceit
• deception
• dissembling
• dissimulation

More specific

• gerrymander

Noun

the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

Synonyms

• cheat
• rig
• swindle

More generic

• fraud

More specific

• bunco
• bunco game
• bunko
• bunko game
• con
• con game
• confidence game
• confidence trick
• cozenage
• flimflam
• gip
• gyp
• holdout
• hustle
• pyramiding
• scam
• shell game
• sting
• swiz
• thimblerig

Noun

someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Synonyms

• beguiler
• cheat
• cheater
• deceiver
• slicker
• trickster

More generic

• offender
• wrongdoer

More specific

• betrayer
• bluffer
• charlatan
• chiseler
• chiseller
• counterfeiter
• decoy
• defalcator
• defrauder
• dissembler
• dissimulator
• dodger
• double-crosser
• double-dealer
• embezzler
• fake
• faker
• falsifier
• figurehead
• finagler
• forger
• fortune hunter
• four-flusher
• fox
• fraud
• front
• front man
• gouger
• grifter
• hypocrite
• imitator
• impersonator
• imposter
• impostor
• liar
• misleader
• mountebank
• nominal head
• obscurantist
• peculator
• phoney
• phony
• pretender
• prevaricator
• pseud
• pseudo
• role player
• sandbagger
• scammer
• sham
• shammer
• slyboots
• steerer
• straw man
• strawman
• swindler
• traitor
• two-timer
• utterer
• wangler

Noun

weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

Synonyms

• Bromus secalinus
• cheat
• chess

More generic

• brome
• bromegrass

Noun

weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

Synonyms

• Lolium temulentum
• bearded darnel
• cheat
• darnel
• tare

More generic

• rye grass
• ryegrass

Verb

defeat someone through trickery or deceit

Synonyms

• cheat
• chicane
• chouse
• jockey
• screw
• shaft

More generic

• beat
• beat out
• crush
• shell
• trounce
• vanquish

Verb

deprive somebody of something by deceit

Synonyms

• cheat
• chisel
• rip off

More generic

• victimise
• victimize

More specific

• beat
• beguile
• bilk
• bunco
• bunk
• con
• cozen
• defraud
• diddle
• fleece
• gazump
• gip
• goldbrick
• gyp
• hoodwink
• hook
• hornswoggle
• juggle
• mulct
• nobble
• overcharge
• pluck
• plume
• rob
• rook
• scam
• short-change
• soak
• surcharge
• swindle
• victimize
• welch
• welsh
• whipsaw

Related

• cozen
• deceive
• delude
• lead on

Verb

engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

Synonyms

• cheat
• chisel

More generic

• cozen
• deceive
• delude
• lead on

More specific

• cook
• cozen
• crib
• fake
• falsify
• fudge
• job
• manipulate
• misrepresent
• rig
• set up
• shark
• wangle

Verb

be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

Synonyms

• betray
• cheat
• cheat on
• cuckold
• wander

More generic

• cozen
• deceive
• delude
• lead on

More specific

• fool around
• play around
• two-time

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