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cheat, n.
(cheats)
more info a deception for profit to yourself
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cheat cheating
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cheat
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cheat cheat
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deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
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gerrymander
more info the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
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cheat rig swindle

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"that book is a fraud"
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swindle
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cheat
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rig rig
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scam, cozenage con game, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, hustle, sting, flimflam gyp, gip pyramiding holdout swiz shell game, thimblerig
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fraud
more info someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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beguiler cheat cheater deceiver slicker trickster
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deceive
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cheat
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cheat cheat cheat
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trick trick
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beguile
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offender, wrongdoer
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bluffer, four-flusher swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter decoy, steerer fox, dodger, slyboots double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor embezzler, defalcator, peculator falsifier finagler, wangler forger, counterfeiter fortune hunter front, front man, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman hypocrite, phony, dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, pretender impersonator, imitator fraud, faker, imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player liar, prevaricator misleader charlatan, mountebank obscurantist sandbagger two-timer utterer
more info weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
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Bromus secalinus cheat chess
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brome, bromegrass
more info weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
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Lolium temulentum bearded darnel cheat darnel tare
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rye grass, ryegrass