单词 | cheat |
例句 | cheat verb 1.•customers were cheated:swindle, defraud, deceive, trick, scam, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull | informal rip off, con, fleece, shaft, hose, sting, bilk, diddle, rook, gyp, finagle, bamboozle, flimflam, put one over on, pull a fast one on, sucker, stiff, hornswoggle | formal mulct | literary cozen. 2.•the boy cheated death:avoid, escape, evade, elude | foil, frustrate, thwart. 3.•it's not the first time her husband has cheated:commit adultery, be unfaithful, stray | informal two-time, play around | archaic cuckold.▶noun •a liar and a cheat:swindler, cheater, fraudster, trickster, deceiver, hoaxer, double-dealer, double-crosser, sham, fraud, fake, charlatan, quack, crook, snake oil salesman, mountebank | informal con man, con artist, scam artist, shark, sharper, phony, flimflammer, bunco artist | dated confidence man/woman.WORD NOTE hornswoggle A delightfully piratical word for cheat or dupe or trick. If Gilbert and Sullivan never used it, they should have. — JSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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