(n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
(n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
(n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
(n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
(n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
(n.) To beguile.
(v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
(n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) 12 October China’s quality watchdog says it is “highly concerned” about the cheat device in VW’s diesel cars.
(2) "I always thought it would be the Colombians who would cheat me out of the money, but they made good," Juan told the magazine.
(3) We’re prepared to inform international society about the steps we’re taking, the investigation, the decisions.” Pound’s report, commissioned in the wake of a devastating documentary by the German journalist Hajo Seppelt for ARD in December last year, outlined systemic cheating on a grand scale including a second “shadow lab” that was used to screen samples, anti-doping labs infiltrated by secret service agents and positive tests covered up for cash.
(4) No evidence of systematic cheating has been found in the tests administered by the four other main providers of English language tests in Britain.
(5) For a "free form" class project in senior year I did a quiz show-style performance piece based on her life ("Ted Hughes cheated on Sylvia Plath: True or False?")
(7) Perspective needed on migration and the UK | Letters Read more “Experience tells us that employers who are prepared to cheat employment rules are also likely to breach health and safety rules and pay insufficient tax.
(8) The report of the inquiry, which helped bring down the Irish government of the day, found fraud and serious illegality in Goodman's companies in the 1980s that had involved not just the faking of documents, but also the commissioning of bogus official stamps, including those of other countries, to misclassify carcasses; passing off of inferior beef trimmings as higher-grade meat; cheating of customs officers; and institutionalised tax evasion.
(9) It has been a long time for me to be playing football and I didn’t want to cheat them or anyone.
(10) But a report sent from the research centre to the directorate as far back as 2010 warned that its testing had found potential cheating by a car-maker.
(11) During a subsequent session we were told that if we had cheated during the test we were putting lives at risk.
(12) It is about whether Mr Woolas should be disqualified for cheating.
(13) The NT makes an ambitious and worthwhile argument: the evidence of a misaligned system of food production is evident at almost every stage – in polluted watercourses and compacted land, in horsemeat passed off as beef and foreign produce repackaged and traded as British, in gangmasters cruelly exploiting migrant labour, and the processing industry cheating on quality.
(14) With Redknapp's and Mandaric's trial now over, it can be revealed that as a result of Operation Apprentice, Storrie was prosecuted, charged with cheating the public revenue in relation to the alleged payment to Faye, and that he and Mandaric were also tried for tax evasion over an alleged termination fee paid to the midfielder Eyal Berkovic via a company, Medellin Enterprises, registered in the British Virgin Islands.
(15) How big a problem is cheating and plagiarism among students?
(16) Everyone seemed to be cheating and the instructors weren't doing anything to stop it.
(17) Yet at HMRC it was decided that prominent British individuals found to be cheating on their taxes would not be prosecuted, a process which would have led to them being named and the facts coming out.
(18) Guenter Verheugen, the enlargement commissioner who helped Cyprus into the EU, told the European parliament yesterday he felt "disappointed" and "cheated" by the Greek-Cypriot government.
(19) Leicester City’s dash to an unlikely Premier League title is billed as football’s most romantic story in a generation but the Football League is still investigating the club’s 2013-14 promotion season amid strong concerns from other clubs they may have cheated financial fair play rules.
(20) Tribunal cases against tax cheats should be handled more quickly – many tax cases can take a decade to resolve and the first-tier tribunals have a backlog of 30,000 cases waiting to be heard.
Cheater
Definition:
(n.) One who cheats.
(n.) An escheator.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is possible to begin to fix the problem by identifying people who are extreme cheaters and are likely to lie on every occasion possible.
(2) One question came from an eight-year-old named Will, from Los Angeles, who asked: "How old will I be when … you can say that there are no more cheaters in baseball, not one?"
(3) (well, I know it isn't *you*, but you might know ... ) October 28, 2013 That would be MEGA-CHEATER SPITBALLER BAN HIM FOR LIFE Jon Lester.
(4) Empirical studies of deception have focused on the benefits of cheating but have provided no data on the costs associated with being detected as a cheater.
(5) There was no difference among the cheaters and non-cheaters in terms of competitiveness.
(6) Of course, some cheaters insert misspelled entities to create "false" original entities and fool the system (Google took care of it).
(7) Cheaters are cheaters,” she told the Irish Times.
(8) In the first part, we disentangle the theoretical concept of a "social contract" from that of a "cheater-detection algorithm".
(9) This provides a mechanism for removing cheaters and preserving the honesty of the Mendelian gene-shuffle.
(10) "I know what I did was wrong but he's the one with a wife and children – he's the cheater.
(11) A survey instrument, developed in 1968 and administered to 1,629 high school students in 1969, 1,100 students in 1979, and 1,291 students in 1989, asked them to respond to items regarding the following: (1) the amount of cheating believed going on, (2) who was most guilty, (3) reasons given for cheating, (4) the courses in which most cheating occurred, (5) how to punish cheaters and by whom, (6) beliefs regarding dishonesty in society, and (7) confessions of their own dishonest behaviors in school.
(12) Several clinical vignettes illustrate types of resistive children and adolescents: the shrugger, the silent child, the rose-colored-glass child, the mistrustful adolescent, the cheater and rule changer, the thrower.
(13) Another, which defends his record on trade with China, asks: "How can Mitt Romney take on the cheaters, when he's taking their side?"
(14) I want this agreement to remind every American that the EPA is on the job and we have your back when companies break rules designed to protect your health and when cheaters stack the deck against businesses that follow the law,” said EPA administrator Gina McCarthy.
(15) In the aftermath of the massive theft of nude celebrity photos last year, victim-blaming rhetoric centered not on, “Why didn’t they enact better security measures?” but, “Why did they have nude photos online in the first place?” For the Ashley Madison hack, the rhetoric is similar: they’re cheaters, so they got what was coming to them.
(16) The cheater moves a maximum of three cars ahead, till a smarter fellow cuts in front of him, hazard lights on, trying the same formula.
(17) It then follows that withholding information should be more prevalent as a form of deception than active falsification of information because of the relative difficulties associated with detecting cheaters.
(18) In July, the Security and Exchange Commission called Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors "a veritable magnet of market cheaters", with federal prosecutors announcing criminal charges against Cohen's hedge fund.