All cheating synonyms
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C c noun cheating
- lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
- dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
- deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
- duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
- chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- fiddling — trifling; trivial: a fiddling sum of money.
- misappropriation — to put to a wrong use.
- fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
adjective cheating
- duplicitous — marked or characterized by duplicity.
- dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- unprincipled — lacking or not based on moral scruples or principles: an unprincipled person; unprincipled behavior.
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- underhanded — underhand.
- false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- underhand — not open and aboveboard; secret and crafty or dishonorable: an underhand deal with the chief of police.