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as in deception
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
a conscienceless adventuress who never earned anything except through cheating
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as in adultery
a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse
she swore that if there was ever any cheating, she'd leave in a heartbeat
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as in dishonest
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as in misrepresenting
to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal
students who cheat on tests end up never knowing anything
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as in lying
to be sexually unfaithful
he suspects that his girlfriend is cheating on him
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as in disappointing
to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of
the daredevil survived his plunge over the falls with barely a scratch, having cheated death once again
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as in hustling
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
a despicable confidence man who heartlessly cheated elderly people out of their savings
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Recent Examples of cheating
Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
The process seems to be amicable; there was no cheating or abuse.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
Accountancy exams go in-person as AI cheating soars The world’s largest accounting body will scrap remote exams to combat a rise in AI-powered cheating.
—semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
Grades have been found to decrease students’ intrinsic motivation, and an overemphasis on grades has been shown to alter learning environments at all levels, leading to academic misconduct – meaning cheating.
—Joshua Rowe Eyler, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2025
Cue the replies eagerly concurring, firmly disagreeing or pointing out the real cases of system-cheating now unfolding.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 14 Dec. 2025
Her subsequent attempts to uncover some sign of infidelity — or at least a scrap of emotional cheating to justify her own — make everyone so uncomfortable that Dylan eventually just calls it and tells everyone to leave.
—Caroline Framke, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
Yet not everyone agrees that cheating is simply a casualty of exhaustion.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
In the show, Teddy and Skyler band together to expose Spencer’s cheating.
—Avalon Hester, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
Alex Sherman,contessa Brewer, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
The predictions were that unleashing AI to the world at large would lead to an exponential rise in cheating at school and that student essays would cease to be original.
—Degen Pener, HollywoodReporter, 3 Jan. 2026
Accountancy has seen several cheating scandals in recent years, with the Big Four firms hit with multimillion-dollar fines after staff tricked internal exams, but the sector is far from alone.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
People cheating the system, trying to fleece taxpayers.
—CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
Kardashian and Thompson split amid the cheating scandal while Woods and Jenner went from inseparable to incommunicado.
—Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
But his girlfriend became angrier and accused him of cheating.
—Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
Tech billionaires running wild, cheating execs, celebrities in space—the only choice was to laugh.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
Gen Z is 'monkey barring' — not cheating.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
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Instead, tax enforcement has been starved, and large-scale cheating has proliferated.
—Adjective
The federation may sanction a player who makes unfounded accusations based on emotion or insufficient data, according to its anti-cheating laws.
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Contessa’s Corner Sports leagues, state gambling regulators and tribal leaders have all raised concerns that prediction market trades on sports don’t have the same level of guardrails as sportsbooks to protect against cheating by athletes, referees, coaches and other insiders.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheating
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McCoy is charged with theft by deception, violation of oath of office, and three counts of false statements and writings.—
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Harper got fired for the aforementioned deception.—
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The book presents itself as a comic take on the classic adultery novel and a send-up of a narrow, self-conscious group of downwardly mobile New Yorkers.—
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The initial batch of documents showed that Angela Paxton sought the divorce on the grounds that Ken Paxton had committed adultery, but included no additional details.—
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Multiple points of validation will help combat dishonest applicants, DEED Deputy Commissioner Evan Rowe told lawmakers at the time.—
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Thai Diner Yes, Thai Diner is technically in NoLita, but leaving it out would feel even more dishonest.—
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In response, some on the right charged that the Times and its allies in academia were negatively misrepresenting American history.—
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In November 2023, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin began investigating First Choice Women’s Resource Center to see whether the nonprofit had violated state consumer fraud laws by misrepresenting its services to clients, donors and the public.—
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The fact that the video is available has not stopped Trump or members of his administration from lying about the heinous crime committed against a 37-year-old mother of three.—
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According to a transcript of the call, the friend found Spencer Tepe lying next to his bed in a puddle of blood.—
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Dependably disappointing Jim Risch, Idaho’s oldest-ever senator, is now eighty-freaking-two!—
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That’s disappointing this year.—
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Students were hustling around campus, coming and going on the penultimate Saturday of the semester.—
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The bubbling party scene in New York City was indeed a movie, and Puffy was hustling his way into the leading role.—
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The president and his allies accused Cook of mortgage fraud.—
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At the same briefing, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt came out swinging at Minnesota Democrats in defense of the ICE agent while touting the Medicaid fraud investigation, which dates back to the Biden administration.—
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“Cheating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheating. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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