cheat
I
verb
act dishonestly, be cunning, be dishonest, befool, beguile, betray, break faith, commit breach of trust, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, deprive of dishonestly, dissemble, dupe, embezzle, fraudare, ignore ethics, inveigle, lack honesty, obtain money by false pretenses, peculate, pettifog, play false, practice chicanery, practice fraud, prevaricate, purloin, represent falsely, sharp, swindle
associated concepts: cheating by false weights and measures, false pretenses, larceny
II
index
betray (lead astray), bilk, copy, deceive, deception, defalcate, defraud, delude, dupe, ensnare, fake, feign, hoax, hoodwink, illude, imposture, inveigle, knavery, maneuver, mislead, mulct (defraud), overreach, palter, peculate, pretend, pretense (pretext), purloin, ruse, shirk, stratagem
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006