Definition: a deception for profit to yourself
Similar words: dissembling, dissimulation, deceit, deception
Definition: the act of deceiving
Definition: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
Usage: that book is a fraud
Similar words: fraud
Definition: intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
Synonyms: deceiver, beguiler, trickster, cheat, cheater, slicker
Definition: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, cheat, chess
Definition: weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
Similar words: brome, bromegrass
Definition: any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions
Synonyms: Lolium temulentum, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, darnel
Definition: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
Synonyms: shaft, screw, cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey
Definition: defeat someone through trickery or deceit
Similar words: trounce, crush, vanquish, shell, beat, beat out
Definition: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Usage: Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship; We beat the competition; Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Synonyms: rip off, cheat, chisel
Definition: deprive somebody of something by deceit
Usage: The con-man beat me out of $50; This salesman ripped us off!; we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme; They chiseled me out of my money
Similar words: victimise, victimize
Definition: make a victim of
Usage: I was victimized by this con-man
Definition: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
Usage: Who's chiseling on the side?
Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander, cuckold
Definition: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
Usage: She cheats on her husband; Might her husband be wandering?