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143 words match “CHEAT”

LURCH v.
To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.] Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant. South.
MALACOPODA n.
A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.
MICHERY n.
Theft; cheating. [Obs.] Gower.
MOUNTEBANK v.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.
MUMP v. 2 definitions
To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar. And then when mumping with a sore leg, ... canting and whining. Burke.
OBREPTION n.
The obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise. Bell.
OVERREACH v. 2 definitions
To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat. Shak.
OVERREACHER n.
One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.
PALMER n.
One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
PASS v.
shop." Macaulay. -- To pass (something) on or upon (some one), to put upon as a trick or cheat; to palm off. "She passed the child on her husband for a boy." Dryden. -- To pass over, to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an affront.
PAUM v.
To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards. [Obs.] Swift.
PRESENTMENT n.
Setting forth to view; delineation; appearance; representation; exhibition. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion, And give it false presentment. Milton.
ROGUE n.
A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. Pope.
ROGUERY n.
The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden.
ROOK n. 2 definitions
A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. Wycherley.
SELL v. 2 definitions
To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. [Slang] Dickens. To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants. -- To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a…
SHAM v.
To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses. Fooled and shammed into a conviction. L'Estrange.
SHARPER n.
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange.
SHAVE v.
ard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat.
SKELDER v. 2 definitions
To deceive; to cheat; to trick. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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