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| Main Entry: | cheating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying |
| Synonyms: | deception, dishonesty, deceiving, defrauding |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | frustrate, thwart |
| Synonyms: | baffle, check, defeat, deprive, foil, prevent |
| Main Entry: | adulterous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfaithful |
| Synonyms: | cheating, fast and loose, illicit, immoral, speedy*, two-faced*, two-timing, double-crossing, extracurricular, moonlighting, unchaste |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, pure, virginal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adultery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extramarital affair |
| Synonyms: | affair, cheating, extracurricular activity*, fling, fornication, hanky-panky*, infidelity, matinee*, relationship, thing*, two-timing, carrying on, immorality, playing around |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chicanery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, trickery |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheating, dishonesty, dodge, double-dealing*, duplicity, feint, fraud, gambit, hanky-panky*, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, chicane, deviousness, double-crossing, fourberie, furtiveness, sharp practice, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dishonest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying, untruthful |
| Synonyms: | backbiting*, bent, cheating, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, disreputable, double-dealing, elusive, false, fraudulent, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, recreant, shady, shifty, sinister, slippery*, sneaky, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, unctuous, underhanded, unfair, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, villainous, wily, bluffing, deceiving, double-crossing, guileful, hoodwinking, sneaking, swindling |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, ethical, fair, frank, honest, moral, open, scrupulous, trustworthy, truthful, principled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
| Synonyms: | artifice, bunk, cheating, chicanery, corruption, craft, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam*, fraud, graft, guile, hanky-panky*, hocus-pocus*, infamy, infidelity, mendacity, racket, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, chicane, criminality, crookedness, fourberie, fraudulence, improbity, insidiousness, perfidiousness, perfidy, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, frankness, honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, openness, scrupulousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disloyal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfaithful |
| Synonyms: | alienated, apostate, cheating, disaffected, faithless, false, perfidious, recreant, seditious, snaky*, subversive, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced*, two-timing, untrue, untrustworthy, wormlike, double-crossing, estranged, treasonable, unloyal, unpatriotic |
| Antonyms: | faithful, loyal, true, trustworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | duplicitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | cheating, deceitful, dishonest, double-dealing, shady, two-faced, two-timing |
| Main Entry: | faithless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disloyal |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, cheating, deceitful, dishonest, double-dealing*, doubting, dubious, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, recreant, skeptical, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced*, two-timing, unbelieving, unfaithful, unreliable, unstable, untrue, untrustworthy, untruthful, wavering, changeful, double-crossing, fluctuating, unconverted, unloyal |
| Antonyms: | believing, constant, faithful, loyal, reliable, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | falsity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty, deception |
| Synonyms: | canard, cheating, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, sham, story, tale, treachery, unfaithfulness, untruth, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, erroneousness, fraudulence, perfidiousness, perfidy, uncandidness, unreality |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | fickle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vacillating, blowing hot and cold |
| Synonyms: | arbitrary, capricious, changeable, cheating, faithless, fitful, flighty, frivolous, inconstant, irresolute, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, ticklish, two-timing, unfaithful, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, untrue, variable, volatile, whimsical, coquettish, double-crossing, lubricious, quicksilver, sneaking, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | aware, cognizant, constant, faithful, reliable, stable, steady |
| Main Entry: | grift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swindle |
| Synonyms: | cheating, con game*, confidence game, deceit, dirty pool*, double-dealing*, extortion, fix, fraud, racket*, rip-off*, scam, shell game*, stealing, sting, trickery, shady deal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hocus-pocus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleight of hand |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, abracadabra, artifice, cant, chant, charm, cheating, chicanery, deceit, deception, deception, delusion, flimflam*, fraud, gibberish, hoax, humbug, imposture, incantation, jargon, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic, monkey business, mumbo jumbo*, mumbo jumbo, nonsense, open sesame*, rigmarole*, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, spell, swindle, trick, trickery, conjuring, gobbledegook*, hocus, magic words, mummery, mystification, occultism |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infidelity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty to an obligation |
| Synonyms: | adultery, affair, betrayal, cheating, duplicity, faithlessness, falsity, lewdness, treachery, treason, two-timing, unfaithfulness, bad faith, extramarital relations, falseness, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, treacherousness |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | pretended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, avowed, bogus, charlatan, cheating, concealed, counterfeit, covered, factitious, fake, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, lying, make-believe, masked, mock, ostensible, phony, pretend, professed, pseudo*, quack*, sham*, simulated, so-called, spurious, supposed, bluffing, dissimulated, impostrous, imposturous, purported, put-on, shammed |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swindle |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, cheating, con, con game, deceit, deception, dirty pool*, double-cross*, double-dealing*, extortion, flimflam*, fraud, hoax, hustle, racket*, rip-off*, shakedown, sham, shell game*, snow job*, sting, crooked deal, fast one, hosing, shady deal, sucker game |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | theft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing |
| Synonyms: | annexation, appropriation, burglary, caper, cheating, crime, deprivation, embezzlement, extortion, filch, fleece*, fraud, grab*, heist, holdup, hustle*, job*, larceny, lift*, pillage, pinch*, piracy, plunder, racket*, rapacity, rip-off*, robbery, score*, snatch*, snitch*, steal, stickup, swindle, thievery, thieving, touch*, vandalism, break-in, defrauding, looting, mugging, peculation, pilferage, pilfering, purloining, robbing, shoplifting, swindling, swiping |
| Antonyms: | return |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trickery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, joke |
| Synonyms: | cheat, cheating, chicanery, con, deceit, dishonesty, dodge, double-cross*, double-dealing*, flimflam*, fraud, guile, hoax, imposture, pretense, quackery, scam, shell game*, shenanigans*, snow job*, sting*, stunt, bait and switch, chicane, dupery, fast shuffle, fourberie, funny business, razzle-dazzle, sharp practice, swindling, underhandedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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