What is "cheated"

Usage examples of "cheated".

I cheated her now and then, but to her own advantage, for a young woman is always more vigorous than a man, and we did not stop till the day began to break.

Every player has cheated death, surviving a killing dose of venom to balance on the edge of oblivion, returning with the magic puntas possess.

I have compelled the thief to refund this money, together with the fifty sequins of which he had likewise cheated me.

I beg to inform you that I am not simple enough to allow myself to be duped, and, what is worse, cheated in such a manner.

You need not be afraid of being cheated, as you will give the money to her personally when you have possessed yourself of her.

I was tired of being cheated, and I took hold of my pistols and pointed them at him, bidding him be gone instantly.

My situation was not pleasant to contemplate: I had been drugged, cheated, robbed, abused, imprisoned, threatened with a mulct of a hundred thousand francs, which would have stripped me to my shirt, as nobody knew the contents of my pocket-book.

All the same, the vaunted honour and loyalty of the Swiss do not prevent them from fleecing strangers, at least as much as the Dutch, but the greenhorns who let themselves be cheated, learn thereby that it is well to bargain before-hand, and then they treat one well and charge reasonably.

I promise you no one will tell you to your face that you cheated, but how are you going to prevent them thinking so?

As may be imagined, I was surprised to find them in England, and especially to be introduced to them by the Charpillon, who, knowing nothing of the affair of the jewels, had not told them that Seingalt was the same as Casanova, whom they had cheated of six thousand francs.

I told him that the only arrangement I would accept was the payment of the six thousand francs, and that they might think themselves very lucky that I did not insist on having my interest, and thus repaying myself in part for the sums they had cheated out of me.

Maton was deceiving me, and I should be cheated in twenty-four hours unless I took care.

He laughed at the police and the cheated husbands, indulged in Venus and Bacchus to excess, sacrificed to the god of pederasty, and gamed incessantly.

This person was Premislas Zanovitch, who afterwards became as famous as his brother who cheated the Amsterdam merchants, and adopted the style of Prince Scanderbeck.

One took the north and the other the south of Europe, and both cheated and duped whenever the opportunity for doing so presented itself.