cheating

noun. disloyalty to an obligation

noun. a mean action

adjective. alleged; imaginary

noun. feigning

Word Origin & History

"deceptiveness, swindling," 1530s, verbal noun from cheat (v.).

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.