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Definition of Cheat

Cheat An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. To beguile. To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards. Wheat, or bread made from wheat. Related Definitions: Act, Active, Also, An, And, Another, As, At, Beguile, Bread, By, Called, Cheat, Cheater, Chess, Deceive, Deceiver, Deception, Defraud, Distortion, Fraud, From, Grain, Grass, Growing, Impose, Imposition, Impostor, Imposture, In, Intentional, Is, Made, Obtaining, Of, One, Or, Practice, Property, See, Swindle, That, The, To, Trick, Trickery, Troublesome, Truth, Upon, Weed, Wheat, Which, Who

Cheat Quotations Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. Henry David Thoreau My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. Franz Kafka One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Aldous Huxley Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. Ernest Hemingway Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cheat Translations cheat in Afrikaans is ploert cheat in Danish is bedrage cheat in Dutch is schurkachtig handelen cheat in French is frauder cheat in Italian is barare, imbrogliare, abbindolare cheat in Latin is circumvenio, deludo cheat in Norwegian is jukse cheat in Portuguese is fraude cheat in Spanish is timo, embaucar, timar cheat in Swedish is fuska, bedra, narras

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