1. Violating accepted standards or rules
   "a cheating fighter";
   - dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
    
2. Not faithful to a spouse or lover
   "cheating husbands and wives";
   - adulterous, two-timing

1. A deception for profit to yourself
   "His cheating on the exam resulted in his expulsion from school";
   - cheat

1. Engage in deceitful behaviour; practice trickery or fraud
   "Who's cheating on the side?";
   - chisel [informal]
    
2. Deprive somebody of something by deceit
   "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme";
   - rip off [informal], chisel [informal]
    
3. Defeat someone through trickery or deceit
   "The con artist cheated the unsuspecting victim out of their savings";
   - chouse [archaic], shaft [informal], screw [informal], chicane, jockey
    
4. Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
   "She cheats on her husband";
   - cheat on, cuckold, betray, wander

Derived forms: cheatings

See also: unfair, unfaithful, unjust

Type of: beat, beat out, cozen [literary], crush, deceit, deceive, deception, delude, dissembling, dissimulation, lead on, shell [US], trounce, vanquish, victimise [Brit], victimize

Encyclopedia: Cheating