indirection
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
meanness
pretended
racket
scam
shadiness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
Word Origin & History
"deceptiveness, swindling," 1530s, verbal noun from cheat (v.).
Example Sentences forcheating
Does it change the fact that you belong to God; that you are cheating Him out of His own property?
I'm not in the habit of cheating, nor of being told that I do, so I was not prepared with an answer.
She used to say it was no cheating of the minister to feed the minister's boys.
That was Caley's last race; he'd been cheating the undertakers for years.
But because of the dual constitution of things, in labor as in life there can be no cheating.
Nor was there ever a sign of cheating that came under Sally's observation.
I do not believe it, or if they are then there must be cheating somewhere.
All thought of cheating abandoned, they fought desperately to score.
It was deception, cheating, fraud, a promise that could never be fulfilled.
If they did, they were simply robbing and cheating their neighbours.