Crossword clues for cheating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheat \Cheat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheated; p. pr. & vb. n. Cheating.] [See Cheat, n., Escheat.]
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To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
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To beguile.
--Sir W. Scott.To cheat winter of its dreariness.
--W. Irving.Syn: To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent; beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach; delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"deceptiveness, swindling," 1530s, verbal noun from cheat (v.).
Wiktionary
1 unsporting or underhand. 2 unfaithful or adulterous. n. An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition. v
(present participle of cheat English)
WordNet
adj. not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend" [syn: adulterous, cheating(a), two-timing(a)]
violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike]
n. a deception for profit to yourself [syn: cheat]
Wikipedia
Cheating is the getting of a reward for ability or finding an easy way out of an unpleasant situation by dishonest means. It is generally used for the breaking of rules to gain unfair advantage in a competitive situation. This broad definition will necessarily include acts of bribery, cronyism, nepotism, sleaze and any situation where individuals are given preference using inappropriate criteria. The rules infringed may be explicit, or they may be from an unwritten code of conduct based on morality, ethics or custom, making the identification of cheating conduct a potentially subjective process. Cheating can refer specifically to marital infidelity. Someone who is known for cheating is referred to as a cheat in British English, and a cheater in American English. A person described as a "cheat" doesn't necessarily cheat all the time, but rather, relies on unfair tactics to the point of acquiring a reputation for it.
Cheating is a metaphor commonly used in behavioral ecology to describe organisms that receive a benefit at the cost of other organisms. Cheating is common in many mutualistic and altruistic relationships. A cheater is an individual who does not cooperate (or cooperates less than their fair share) but can potentially gain the benefit from others cooperating. Cheaters are also those who selfishly use common resources to maximize their individual fitness at the expense of a group. Natural selection favors cheating, but there are mechanisms to regulate cheating.
At law, cheating is a specific criminal offence relating to property.
Historically, to cheat was to commit a misdemeanour at common law. However, in most jurisdictions, the offence has now been codified into statute.
In most cases the codified statutory form of cheating and the original common law offence are very similar, however there can be differences. For example, under English law it was held in R. v. Sinclair that "[t]o cheat and defraud is to act with deliberate dishonesty to the prejudice of another person's proprietary right." However, at common law a great deal of authority suggested that there had to be contrivance, such that the public were likely to be deceived and that "common prudence and caution are not sufficient security against a person being defrauded thereby".
Examples of cheating upheld by the courts have included fraudulently pretending to have power to discharge a soldier, using false weights or measures, and playing with false dice.
Cheating is an immoral way of achieving a goal.
Cheating may also refer to:
- Cheating (biology), a metaphor used in behavioral ecology to describe organisms that receive a benefit at the cost of other organisms
- Cheating (law), a specific criminal offence relating to property
- Cheating, a synonym of infidelity, used to describe adultery
"Cheating" is a song by English singer John Newman. The song was released on 6 October 2013 as the second single from his debut studio album, Tribute (2013). The song was written by John Newman and Emily Phillips. The song has peaked to number 9 on the UK Singles Chart.
Usage examples of "cheating".
After supper she held a bank, and I was greatly astonished when I saw her cheating with great dexterity.
Just as we were finishing supper, an Englishman, who had been of the whist party, came up and told Walpole that the Italian had been caught cheating and had given the lie to their fellow Englishman, who had detected him, and that they had gone out together.
Carrying my gun, with a good warm cloak over my uniform and with a large bag containing all my purchases, I take leave of the worthy Greek, and am landed on the shore, determined on obtaining a lodging from the cheating papa, by fair means or foul.
Well, their cheating was done with the book, and I have done them a kindness by taking it from them.
I was soon in her arms, and for four hours we gave ourselves up to every kind of pleasure, cheating each other the better to succeed, and laughing with delight each time we convinced each other of our love.
I liked this way of putting it, though I had not the slightest idea of cheating the girl out of the sum I had promised her.
Our occupation is robbing, cheating, and escaping from one land to another.
He made an uproar over this piece of cheating, but the soldiers only laughed at him.
Naples only live by cheating, and especially by imposing on strangers.
The latter had not yet given up hopes of cheating the chevalier in one way or another.
Marber might have been cheating his artists and clients alike: charging over the odds, paying too little .
If this kind of teacher cheating is truly going on, how might it be detected?
One of these classrooms almost certainly had a cheating teacher and the other did not.
Here again are the answer strings from classroom A, now reordered by a computer that has been asked to apply the cheating algorithm and seek out suspicious patterns.
Chicago data reveals evidence of teacher cheating in more than two hundred classrooms per year, roughly 5 percent of the total.