| cheat | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, lolium temulentum, tare | weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous. |
| ~ rye grass, ryegrass | any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses. |
| n. (plant) | 2. bromus secalinus, cheat, chess | weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat. |
| ~ brome, bromegrass | any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions. |
| n. (person) | 3. beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. |
| ~ offender, wrongdoer | a person who transgresses moral or civil law. |
| ~ bluffer, four-flusher | a person who tries to bluff other people. |
| ~ chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler, gouger | a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud. |
| ~ decoy, steerer | a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot). |
| ~ dodger, slyboots, fox | a shifty deceptive person. |
| ~ double-crosser, double-dealer, betrayer, traitor, two-timer | a person who says one thing and does another. |
| ~ defalcator, embezzler, peculator | someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use. |
| ~ falsifier | someone who falsifies. |
| ~ finagler, wangler | a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods. |
| ~ counterfeiter, forger | someone who makes copies illegally. |
| ~ fortune hunter | a person who seeks wealth through marriage. |
| ~ figurehead, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, front | a person used as a cover for some questionable activity. |
| ~ dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives. |
| ~ imitator, impersonator | someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another. |
| ~ faker, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, fake, fraud, pretender, sham, shammer | a person who makes deceitful pretenses. |
| ~ liar, prevaricator | a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly. |
| ~ misleader | someone who leads astray (often deliberately). |
| ~ charlatan, mountebank | a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes. |
| ~ obscurantist | a person who is deliberately vague. |
| ~ sandbagger | someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you. |
| ~ two-timer | someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else. |
| ~ utterer | someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins. |
| n. (act) | 4. cheat, rig, swindle | the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme.; "that book is a fraud" |
| ~ cozenage, scam | a fraudulent business scheme. |
| ~ fraud | intentional deception resulting in injury to another person. |
| ~ bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, con, sting | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. |
| ~ pyramiding | a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated. |
| ~ holdout | the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later. |
| ~ swiz | British slang for a swindle. |
| ~ shell game, thimblerig | a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under. |
| n. (act) | 5. cheat, cheating | a deception for profit to yourself. |
| ~ dissimulation, deception, dissembling, deceit | the act of deceiving. |
| ~ gerrymander | an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage). |
| v. (social) | 6. cheat, chisel, rip off | deprive somebody of something by deceit.; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| ~ gazump | raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price. |
| ~ cozen | cheat or trick.; "He cozened the money out of the old man" |
| ~ fleece, gazump, overcharge, plume, hook, rob, soak, surcharge, pluck | rip off; ask an unreasonable price. |
| ~ bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, short-change, victimize | deprive of by deceit.; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" |
| ~ bilk | cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money. |
| ~ bunk, beat | avoid paying.; "beat the subway fare" |
| ~ whipsaw | victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations. |
| ~ welch, welsh | cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt. |
| ~ victimise, victimize | make a victim of.; "I was victimized by this con-man" |
| ~ cozen, deceive, delude, lead on | be false to; be dishonest with. |
| ~ beguile, hoodwink, juggle | influence by slyness. |
| v. (competition) | 7. cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft | defeat someone through trickery or deceit. |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| v. (social) | 8. cheat, chisel | engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.; "Who's chiseling on the side?" |
| ~ job | profit privately from public office and official business. |
| ~ shark | play the shark; act with trickery. |
| ~ rig, set up | arrange the outcome of by means of deceit.; "rig an election" |
| ~ cozen | act with artful deceit. |
| ~ crib | use a crib, as in an exam. |
| ~ cozen, deceive, delude, lead on | be false to; be dishonest with. |
| ~ fudge, fake, falsify, misrepresent, wangle, manipulate, cook | tamper, with the purpose of deception.; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" |
| v. (social) | 9. betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander | be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage.; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" |
| ~ cozen, deceive, delude, lead on | be false to; be dishonest with. |
| ~ two-time | carry on a romantic relationship with two people at the same time. |
| ~ play around, fool around | commit adultery.; "he plays around a lot" |
| con | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. con | an argument opposed to a proposal. |
| ~ argument, statement | a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true.; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true" |
| n. (person) | 2. con, convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird | a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison. |
| ~ lifer | a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment. |
| ~ captive, prisoner | a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war. |
| ~ trusty | a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges. |
| n. (act) | 3. bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. |
| ~ sting operation | a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals). |
| ~ swindle, cheat, rig | the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme.; "that book is a fraud" |
| v. (social) | 4. bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize | deprive of by deceit.; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" |
| ~ short, short-change | cheat someone by not returning him enough money. |
| ~ cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit.; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. con, learn, memorise, memorize | commit to memory; learn by heart.; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" |
| ~ understudy, alternate | be an understudy or alternate for a role. |
| ~ hit the books, study | learn by reading books.; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now" |
| adv. | 6. con | in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc..; "much was written pro and con" |
| dupe | | |
| n. (person) | 1. dupe, victim | a person who is tricked or swindled. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ laughingstock, goat, stooge, butt | a victim of ridicule or pranks. |
| ~ chump, fall guy, gull, patsy, soft touch, sucker, fool, mug, mark | a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of. |
| ~ lamb | a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters). |
| ~ easy mark, sitting duck | a defenseless victim. |
| v. (communication) | 2. befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in | fool or hoax.; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" |
| ~ kid, pull the leg of | tell false information to for fun.; "Are you pulling my leg?" |
| ~ deceive, lead astray, betray | cause someone to believe an untruth.; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" |
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