(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.
Fob
Definition:
(v.t.) To beat; to maul.
(n.) A little pocket for a watch.
(v.t.) To cheat; to trick; to impose on.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias, excluding sinus tachycardia, during FOB is low and that lidocaine anesthesia probably exerts a protective effect against the development of major arrhythmias during the procedure.
(2) On one side stand the FOGs – the Friends of George – and on the other stand the FOBs – the Friends of Boris.
(3) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
(4) Kenton's alliance with Zaleshoff isn't always an easy one - the journalist is unimpressed by the spy's attempt to fob him off with the official Stalinist line on Trotskyite subversion, for example, and Zaleshoff is, not unreasonably, suspicious of Kenton's motives for helping him - but it's kept afloat by the undercurrent of sexual attraction between Kenton and Zaleshoff's sister.
(5) The fiberoptic bronchoscope (FOB) plays an essential role in diagnosing respiratory infections in AIDS and is important in minimizing the need for open lung biopsies.
(6) Subsequent examinations included repeat FOB (five), open lung biopsy (five), needle aspiration (two), and autopsy (nine), establishing 49 diagnoses.
(7) In the context of hazard identification (i.e., testing for the effects of unknown chemicals) the FOB and motor activity may be expected to adequately detect neurotoxicity.
(8) With smart key fobs it will be possible to configure it to shut down every appliance linked to a smart plug, plus the heating, when you leave the premises.
(9) Subsequent FOB was performed first by the independent observer to record the DLT position and next by the investigators for improvement or correction of their positioning under visual control.
(10) This study suggests that declines in PaO2 after bronchoscopy can be avoided in most patients undergoing diagnostic FOB by using a diaphragm-modified 40 percent Venturi mask during and after the procedure.
(11) They are becoming more and more sophisticated, so if you have anything worth stealing, it’s worth it.” A video of his facility shows a client using a personalised fob and code through two doors to gain access to a reception where staff behind bulletproof glass identify clients as they give their biometric data to enter the vault.
(12) The two independent molecules, one SCN- ion and 97 associated water molecules were refined by molecular dynamics and annealing techniques to R = 19.6% (10,913 Fobs, resolution 5-1.7 A).
(13) We're going to fob you off with some old jumble from the attic."
(14) When comparisons can be made between effects detected with the FOB and other methods of measuring neurotoxicity (e.g., neuropathology), concurrent validity can also be established.
(15) Frequently, the FOB is used in conjunction with other measures of neurotoxicity, i.e., neuropathology or sensory evoked potentials.
(16) By using freshly isolated blood trypomastigotes of twelve T. cruzi wild type strains we have found eight strains sensitive to FoB and FoA, while four and one were FoA- and FoB-insensitive respectively to the drug-mediated growth inhibition.
(17) Hospitals are risking a repeat of the Mid Staffs care scandal by ignoring patients' complaints, fobbing some off with inadequate explanations of errors and even lying about mistakes, the NHS's ombudsman has warned.
(18) The debate on the future of defence in Scotland is too important to be ignored, or brushed under the carpet, or fobbed off with half-baked sound-bite policies which are financially and strategically incoherent.
(19) That applied equally to the working-class man who felt fobbed off by statistics about border guards when he was worried about EU immigration, and to the woman who works long hours in a small business.
(20) In a prospective randomized trial, we examined the value of routine postlobectomy fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) in preventing postoperative atelectasis.