CHEATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cheating mean? 

• CHEATING (noun)
  The noun CHEATING has 1 sense:

1. a deception for profit to yourself

  Familiarity information: CHEATING used as a noun is very rare.

• CHEATING (adjective)
  The adjective CHEATING has 2 senses:

1. not faithful to a spouse or lover

2. violating accepted standards or rules

  Familiarity information: CHEATING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deception for profit to yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cheat; cheating

Hypernyms ("cheating" is a kind of...):

deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cheating"):

gerrymander (an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage))

Derivation:

cheat (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

cheat (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud)

• CHEATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not faithful to a spouse or lover

Synonyms:

adulterous; cheating; two-timing

Context example:

a two-timing boyfriend

Similar:

unfaithful (having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Violating accepted standards or rules

Synonyms:

cheating; dirty; foul; unsporting; unsportsmanlike

Context example:

fined for unsportsmanlike behavior

Similar:

unfair; unjust (not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception)

 Context examples 

He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I believe that on the day of the murder Adair had discovered that Moran was cheating.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore, made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all—and now despise me if you dare.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Then the miser began to beg and promise, and offered money for his liberty; but he did not come up to the musician’s price for some time, and he danced him along brisker and brisker, and the miser bid higher and higher, till at last he offered a round hundred of florins that he had in his purse, and had just gained by cheating some poor fellow.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations: every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, strolling whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)