| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defraud, fool |
Synonyms: |
bamboozle*, beat, beguile, bilk, bleed, bunco, burn, caboodle, chisel, con, cozen, crib, cross, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, do a number on, do*, double-cross, double-deal, dupe, fast talk, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fudge, give bum steer, gouge, gyp, hoodwink, hose, jerk around, milk, mislead, pull one's leg, ream, rip off, rook, rope in, sandbag, scam, screw, shaft, short, shuck, skin, snow, stiff, sucker, swindle, take, take for a ride, take in, take out, trick, trim, two-time, victimize |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | frustrate, thwart |
Synonyms: |
baffle, check, defeat, deprive, foil, prevent |
| Main Entry: | cheating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying |
Synonyms: |
deceiving, deception, defrauding, dishonesty |
| Main Entry: | adulterous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfaithful |
Synonyms: |
cheating, double-crossing, extracurricular, fast and loose, illicit, immoral, moonlighting, speedy*, two-faced, two-timing, unchaste |
Antonyms: |
chaste, clean, pure, virginal |
| Main Entry: | adultery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extramarital affair |
Synonyms: |
affair, carrying on, cheating, extracurricular activity, fling, fornication, hanky-panky, immorality, infidelity, matinee, playing around, relationship, thing*, two-timing |
Antonyms: |
faithfulness |
| Main Entry: | beguile |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fool |
Synonyms: |
betray, bluff, burn*, cheat, chisel, con, deceive, delude, double-cross, dupe, entice, exploit, finesse, flimflam, gyp, have, hoodwink*, impose on, jockey, juggle, lure, manipulate, mislead, play, play for a sucker, rook, rope in, scam, seduce, shave, snow*, stick*, string along, suck in, take, take in, trick |
| Main Entry: | chicanery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, trickery |
Synonyms: |
artifice, cheating, chicane, deviousness, dishonesty, dodge, double-crossing, double-dealing, duplicity, feint, fourberie, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, hanky-panky, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
Antonyms: |
forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | con |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive, defraud |
Synonyms: |
bamboozle*, bilk, cajole, cheat, chicane, coax, double-cross, dupe, flimflam, fool, hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, inveigle, mislead, rip off, rook, sweet-talk, swindle, trick, wheedle |
Antonyms: |
be forthright, be honest |
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make deceitful imitation |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, act like, affect, ape, assume, bluff, carbon, cheat, circulate bad money, clone, coin, copy, defraud, delude, ditto, do, do like, dupe, fabricate, fake, feign, forge, go like, imitate, impersonate, knock off, make like, make money, mimeo, mimic, mint, phony up, phony*, pretend, put on*, sham, simulate, stat |
Antonyms: |
be honest |
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practice of misleading |
Synonyms: |
ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, cozening, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, entrapping, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, overreaching, pretense, slyness, smoke and mirrors, trapping, treachery, trickery, two-facedness, two-timing, underhandedness |
Antonyms: |
frankness, honesty, openness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness |