cheating

Unsporting or underhand.

Adjective

  1. Unsporting or underhand.
  2. Unfaithful or adulterous.

Forms

more cheating most cheating

Related

Cheating in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Derived

cheatingly noncheating uncheating

Noun

  1. An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
    • the cheatings and impositions of your pitiful trade - 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned:
  2. The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.
    • Cheating is the sixth C of Cinematography ... it is the art of arranging people, objects or actions, during filming or editing - 1965, Joseph V. Mascelli, The Five C’s of Cinematography:

Forms

cheatings

Derived

anticheating contract cheating cybercheating

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of cheat