Deceit vs. Cheat — What's the Difference?

The action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth

To deceive by trickery; swindle

The act or practice of deceiving; deception.

To deprive by trickery; defraud

A stratagem; a trick.

To mislead; fool

The quality of being deceitful; falseness.

To elude; escape

An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.

To act dishonestly; practice fraud.

An act of deceiving someone.

To violate rules deliberately, as in a game

(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.

(Informal) To be sexually unfaithful

(law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.

(Sports) To position oneself closer to a certain area than is normal or expected

An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.

An act of cheating; a fraud or swindle.

Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.

One who cheats; a swindler.

The quality of being fraudulent

A technique that exploits a flaw or hidden feature in a video game or computer program.

A misleading falsehood

(Law) Fraudulent acquisition of another's property.

The act of deceiving

(Botany) Any of several species of brome, especially Bromus secalinus, an annual European grass widespread as a weed.

(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.

(intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.

(transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.

(transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

Someone who cheats.

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.

The weed cheatgrass.

(card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.

(obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.

A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; - called also chess. See Chess.

The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.

Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.

To beguile.

To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.

Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme;

A deception for profit to yourself

Deprive somebody of something by deceit;

Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit

Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;

Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage;