as in cheated
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
was shortchanged out of a promotion
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Recent Examples of shortchanged
An article from The Star in 2017 said the two began conceptualizing the store in 2015 after noticing men were being shortchanged in the retail industry.
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Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 30 Dec. 2025
Other typically snowy areas have been shortchanged so far.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
Badly shortchanged by its pandemic release, Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel is still one of the director’s most underrated efforts.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2025
New research suggests American passengers are already getting shortchanged because of lax regulation.
—Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
The governor came to Palm Beach State College just west of Lake Worth Beach on Wednesday to discuss the issue, including his claim that Florida was shortchanged after the 2000 Census and should have gotten one more congressional district.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
No matter your preference, you won’t be shortchanged by a Labor Day visit to the northeast.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
While banks prey on the false scarcity by demanding an even higher premium on loans, research shows that for Cook County is being shortchanged in terms of state funding.
—Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
Still, some up-and-coming teams got shortchanged.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortchanged
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Bondi forgave a crime that had put people’s lives at risk and cheated the government of vaccine doses that could have been given to others.—
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The tension resurfaced when her sister discovered her partner had cheated again and asked to stay at the poster’s home with both children.—
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Mountain View Fire Rescue hustled to get to a fire caused by a power pole that blew down.—
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My mother—an incredible single mom of four kids—just hustled.—
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At one point, the fear that squeezed my stomach tighter and tighter gave way to stupefaction.—
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Even if those increases eventually unwind, the impact will fall on households that have already been squeezed for decades, and many households are no longer assuming prices will fall back—they’ve been burned too often.—
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Tuesday’s loss in Orlando stung a little more for the Miami Heat than the usual December loss during a long 82-game regular season.—
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But still, some losses have stung harder than others.—
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While Marty Supreme is only loosely inspired by Reisman, there are several sequences and character details plucked from his life.—
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Arsene Wenger was plucked from ‘Japan’, as Sir Alex Ferguson memorably enunciated it, in 1996.—
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Got screwed when the referee missed an obvious blow to the head that gave the Pats a field goal.—
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Cameramen everywhere are getting screwed by Hudson Williams’s favorite pose, the double-bird.—
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But there is a primal scream stuck in our collective throat.—
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Even after the pick-less Young trade, there does seem to be a pathway present for the Heat to restock with draft picks while, like the Hawks, continually stuck in play-in-ville.—
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“Shortchanged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortchanged. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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