38 Verbs to Use for the Word cheat

Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria, not only destroyed the temples of the gods, but discovered the cheats of the priests, by shewing that the statues, some of which were of brass, and others of wood, were hollow within, and led into dark passages made in the wall.

I find the cheat, and will not to the Camp; Thou shalt supply my place, and I'll return: The Night grows on, and something will be done That I must be acquainted with.

Sir, you know the old Cheat; hire a Lay Rascal in a Canonical Habit, and put a false Marriage upon her.

Mrs. Rosenberg detected the cheat at once; and, as she was needing the money for the socks, she scolded Mandoline soundly, and pelted her pretty little hands, rat, tat, tat, with a steel thimble.

Then might the Thebans perish with renown: But now a beardless victor sacks the town; Whom nor the prancing steed, nor ponderous shield, Nor the hacked helmet, nor the dusty field, But the soft joys of luxury and ease, The purple vests, and flowery garlands, please. Stand then aside, I'll make the counterfeit 50 Renounce his godhead, and confess the cheat.

By all the Gods that are not, I will expose the cheat, or perish in the endeavour.

"It shall not benefit deceit, Nor help the man who's played the cheat.

The following famous lines on the worth of existence are taken from his tragedy of Aurengzebe: "When I consider'd life, 'tis all a cheat, Yet, fool'd with hope, men favor the deceit, Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day, Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.

But to clear up this palpable cheat to my man Friday, I told him, "that the pretence of their ancient men going up to the mountain to say O to their God Benamuckee was an imposture, and that their bringing back an answer was all a sham, if not worse; for that, if there was any such thing spoken to them, surely it must proceed from an infernal spirit."

But does our Lord bid us copy a cheat?

But they, at every ill success, Like creatures lost without redress, Cursed politicians, armies, fleets; While every one cried, 'Damn the cheats!' And would, though conscious of his own, In others barbarously bear none.

But how often I was deemed a cheat, how often repulsed, how often put off with empty hope, how often confused in myself, I cannot express.

This was the origin of the proverb which described a cheat as "a dealer in goat by halves.

But I will grant your merit a reward; Your flame's too noble to deserve a cheat, And I too plain to practise a deceit.

5. 'Does airy fancy cheat

Instantly, almost before the speech was out, the giant in the apron had hurled himself across the room and gripped the cheat, who stood, a hand arrested on its way to his pocket, snarling helplessly.

I hate cheats!"

My heart has brooded o'er sorrows untold, until life has seemed an awful blank, humanity a cheat, and myself an outcast.

They have terms to indicate cheat, liar, thief, murderer, coward, fool, lazy man, drunkard, babbler.

And yet it is not difficult to discover farmers to-day who will stubbornly argue that "wheat makes cheat."

O Faith that meets ten thousand cheats Yet drops no jot of faith!

Why should I mention the pious cheats of the priests, who in the New Testament translate the word ecclesia sometimes the church, and sometimes the congregation; and episcopus, sometimes a bishop, and sometimes an overseer?

"He nevermore could get it for all his vain desire; So fortune oft the traitor cheats of his treason's hire.

You've shown yourself, from start to finish, a miserable cheat; there's no trust to be put in either your judgment or your intentions.

A partridge, with experience wise, The fraudful preparation spies: She mocks their toils, alarms her brood; The covey springs, and seeks the wood; 10 But ere her certain wing she tries, Thus to the creeping spaniel cries: 'Thou fawning slave to man's deceit, Thou pimp of luxury, sneaking cheat, Of thy whole species thou disgrace, Dogs shall disown thee of their race!

38 Verbs to Use for the Word  cheat