What's the difference between cheat and diddle?

Cheat


Definition:

  • (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?")
  • (6) Sly, underhanded, contemptuous, mendacious, double-dealing, cheating democracy.
  • (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.

Diddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To totter, as a child in walking.
  • (v. t.) To cheat or overreach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.00pm BST 14 min: Commons tries to trick the keeper by cracking a freekick in at the near post rather than crossing, but you have to get up earlier than that to diddle Smokin' Mokin, who beats the ball away acrobatically.
  • (2) The ministerial batting partnership of Cable and Fallon played a straight bat to claims that the investment banks diddled the government, and were aggressive in categorically disputing that taxpayers lost out.
  • (3) The Scottish Labour party said the deficit destroyed the Scottish National party's case that the country was being "diddled" by the rest of the UK and underlined the importance for Scotland of remaining in the union to share risks and rewards.
  • (4) Updated at 11.42pm BST 11.05pm BST ET 6 min: Robben shows a bit of rare ambition, his toes twinkling down the right, diddling Demichelis and winning a corner.
  • (5) Aguero diddles across the QPR area from the left, and then slips a pass through to Tevez.
  • (6) 3 min: From a corner, Benzema picks up the ball on the edge of the Rangers box, thinks about a shot, then checks and feeds Baros, who so nearly diddles Papac down the right.
  • (7) "This shows the huge economic benefits of Scotland working in partnership with the rest of the UK and explodes the myth that somehow Scotland's finances are being diddled by the club we are part of," he said.
  • (8) 35 min: Bendtner diddles down the right and loops the ball into the six-yard area.
  • (9) Anita diddles around down the right, reaching the byline and laying off for Gutierrez, whose cross is guided away from danger by Hart.
  • (10) 5.42pm GMT 82 min: Suarez diddles his way into the Chelsea area on the left but he's crowded out.
  • (11) 8.24pm BST 23 min: Snodgrass diddles around on the edge of the England area, and should be awarded a free kick, Gerrard coming through the back of him.
  • (12) 21 min: Fucile and Alvaro Pereira diddle down the left.
  • (13) 2.58pm BST In the women's final, the wonderful, wondrous Serena Williams diddled Sara Errani 6-3, 6-0.
  • (14) Nasri diddles his way in from the left and thumps one goalwards from 20 yards out.
  • (15) 6.48pm GMT 60 min: That was incredibly poor judgement from Lovren there, who was diddled all ends up by Suarez.
  • (16) 1.31pm GMT 45 min: Simpson diddles Clichy down the right and swings one to the far post, where Cisse causes enough bother to win a corner.
  • (17) 6.35pm BST 78 min: Messi dances and diddles into the area down the inside left.