(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.
Underhanded
Definition:
(a.) Underhand; clandestine.
(a.) Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(3) It is plain that, by means up-front and underhand, unemployment benefit is being systematically destroyed as a reliable source of income.
(4) We are going to work it out.” Mercedes’ executive director, Toto Wolff, said of the feud: “As long as it isn’t detrimental to the team spirit, as long as it is not underhand, we will handle the situation in the way we did before.
(5) The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.
(6) In 2006, Norris told the Observer: "I never became involved with underhand dealings or giving money to coppers."
(7) However, the health secretary is likely to face a parliamentary inquiry into his department’s figures after the Commons public accounts committee accused him of “underhand” behaviour in publishing his department’s figures on the last day before MPs leave for their summer break.
(8) They say they are the target of underhand plots by their political opponents.
(9) Some member states saw it as an underhand way for the UK to get an advantage.
(10) This time, the senior point guard made an underhanded flip to Jenkins, who spotted up a pace or two behind the arc and swished it with Carolina’s Isaiah Hicks running at him.
(11) The Abbott government should listen to the people of Australia instead of trying to bully them and wear them down with expensive advertising propaganda campaigns and underhanded political tactics.” Even if the PUP decided to support a compromise package, the votes of Lambie, Xenophon and Muir would be enough to defeat the bill when combined with Labor and the Greens.
(12) If he is no longer the favoured man, why is the education secretary so underhand in his disapproval?
(13) Nor does there need to be personal or commercial gain from underhand behaviour.
(14) "They occur where there is a misunderstanding or miscommunication or sometimes something more underhand," says a spokesman.
(15) A visual model performing an underhand modified softball pitch was viewed prior to each of four blocks of five practice trials.
(16) "In those days, what was considered proper reporting was to do things in as underhand and as deceitful a way as possible.
(17) BAE's underhand methods further call into question the intimate relationship between BAE and the government."
(18) Transparency campaigners said the groups' funding left them open to allegations of underhand dealings.
(19) It might be an underhand way to run a tax system, but it serves Luxembourg well.
(20) Such transactions are commonplace in San Francisco and the Silk Road was meant to be their alternative: a place where anyone who wanted drugs could buy them without associating with underhanded dealers or entering dangerous alleyways.