cheat someone out of something

Examples of cheating

cheating

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

In that example, the runner strictly prefers realizing some culmination outcome (winning) in certain ways (by competing fairly) rather than others (by cheating).
Given their propositional form, for example, "cheating is wrong," moral beliefs appear to make statements that could be true or false.
We are afraid that the election will be done by force and cheating.
We must stop cheating : the whole meaning of our life is in question in the future that is waiting for us.
A symbolic way of cheating our inevitable common-fate, if you like.
Nor does his performance provide any way of computing the exact probability that he is cheating.
A poor man, without resources or power, for his part, can only have recourse to zey-yan, that is to theft, cheating and shameful sneaking around.
We suggest that reproductive cheating is a far more routine female strategy than the literature on sociosexuality might suggest.
This strategy would require a system of randomly checking reports from smallholders that, if combined with substantial penalties for misreporting, will prevent cheating.
Yet it is hard to see how we can know that without cheating.
Unfortunately the design of effective bonus systems is complex, for cheating and other difficulties become more serious as bonuses to individuals become larger.
Or consider constraints such as those against lying and cheating, which friends honour in their behaviour toward each other.
If cheating becomes institutionalized as a strategy, then it destroys the possibility of anything else but a low quality outcome.
He knows that people who refrain from cheating in these circumstances will develop good reputations and do better in the long run.
But resistance, which might take the form of 'cheating the system' by making simultaneous applications to several different charities, proved surprisingly effective.
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