cheat (third-person singular simple presentcheats,present participlecheating,simple past and past participlecheated)
(intransitive) Toviolate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
My brother flunked biology because hecheated on his mid-term.
(intransitive) To beunfaithful to one'sspouse orpartner; to commitadultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
2003, Martin Kantor,Distancing: Avoidant Personality Disorder, page137:
While the nonavoidant passive-aggressivecheats for the sexual gratification and tries to disguise his or hercheating afterwards, in contrast, the passive-aggressive avoidantcheats less for the sex than to send a message[…]
[T]he holly providentially planted about the house, tocheat winter of its dreariness, and throw in a gleam of green summer to cheer the fireside:—all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind.
2018, Peter Smith, quotingJohnny Rotten,Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk, Rowman & Littlefield,→ISBN,page xxvi:
The gig ended with Rotten uttering the now famous line, “Ever get the feeling you've beencheated?” On January 17, the Sex Pistols split up.
(informal,intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling himcheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; but some went betwixt them, and with much ado and much struggling and cursing they were parted, and it being shown that the dice were not loaded, the son of Corund was fain to make amends to Corinius, and so were they set at one again.
1990 February 4, Margy Dowzer, Mary Frances Platt, Aviva Shmuckler, “Disability And Accessibility Cost Money!”, inGay Community News, volume17, number29, page13:
The caseworker couldn't understand how I could have stretched out my last bit of money for so long. She seemed convinced that I was "hiding" income from her and interrogated me for I don't know how long[…] The system seems based on the assumption that people are "welfarecheats. If you don't speak English or are marginal in some other way, it's worse. I wish they'd put the Defense Department through what we go through.
The raueledcheat therfore is generallie ſo made that out of one buſhell of meale, after two and twentie pounds of bran be ſifted and taken from it (wherevnto they ad thegurgeons that riſe from the manchet) they make thirtie cast, euerie lofe weighing eightéene ounces into the ouen and ſixteene ounces out[…]
Takes part with them, at ſhore: their pureſtcheat, / Thrice boulted, kneaded, and ſubdu'd in paſt[…]
1746, Thomas Moffett, Christopher Bennet,Health's Improvement[…][2], London: T. Oſborne, page339:
Where by the way note, that loaves made of pure Wheaten Meal require both more Leaven and more labouring, and more baking than either coarſeCheat or than Bread Mingled of Meal and Grudgins.
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