cheat someone out of something

Examples of cheated

cheated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

A perception that the physician has somehow cheated on that expected reciprocation is prone to evoke a most strident form of aggression.
For example, 80% of subjects tested reported stronger anger when cheated by a long-term partner than by a stranger.
In this case only the cheated party needs to know the identity of the cheater to prevent future trade.
It caused particular fury when a minister excluded any whose communion offerings he had taken : people felt they had been cheated.
He was one of those people who never lied, never cheated, never did bad things in his life.
The women felt cheated out of opportunities to fulfill dreams and talked about "other things @they# wanted to do" before getting sick.
On the other, the speaker only knows that one of the students cheated but does not know which one (quantificational, non-referential, non-specific reading).
I know that because of him we will not be cheated by the merchant-manufacturers.
Employers are let down and even cheated by kin, whether real or constructed.
Or do you think that the authorities are so blind as to be cheated by you?
His complaint was that he had been cheated by this jeweller of three jewels.
Players were less likely to trust opponents in games immediately after they had been cheated than in games after the opponent was unselfish.
To overcome this uncertainty, individuals require a way of ensuring that they can avoid being cheated by impatient outsiders.
Even if the rational actor is cheated in later rounds, he/she has still done better than if he/she had never cooperated.
Of course, there was not the slightest question of my having cheated, only of my being unwise in my failure to question my results.
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