Definition of Cheat

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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.

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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

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

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.
Jay Leno

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

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 must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
Franz Kafka

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
Fran Lebowitz

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
Tommy Lasorda

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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