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Synonyms for cheat

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for cheat

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for cheat

weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land

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

a deception for profit to yourself

defeat someone through trickery or deceit

be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

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Some schools have honor codes that ask students to state they have not cheated and that they will not tolerate it if someone else does.
As can be seen in Table 3, almost half of students cheated when examinations were based on memorization; more than 10% cheated when teachers presented the lesson as more difficult than it actually is; and almost 10% cheated when teachers overlooked cheating during the examination, if lessons were taught by a teacher from a different branch of education, or when it was considered that a teacher could not teach the lesson effectively.
Hetherington and Feldman (1964) placed students in various situations and observed whether they cheated. In the first instance, they placed five students in the room who were not actually taking the course in order to observe which students cheated.
All of them cheated on a test we took shortly thereafter, leaving the teacher with the false impression that they understood what was being taught.
Business majors, however, were the only group that cheated significantly less than undeclared students over all the count data model runs.
Literature often describes cheating data in percentages who have cheated. Fewer OL only students cheated, 51.9% than FF only students 71.5%, [chi square](1) = 12.49, p < .001.
That is, if the discovery of cheating on the part of the contestant who finished first results in the next highest ranking contestant winning by default, the incentive to cheat is weaker than if no prize is awarded when the top-ranked contestant is found to have cheated. With default victories, the cost of cheating arising from possible disqualification is greater because disqualification is more costly if one's opponent has been disqualified and therefore victory is assured.
About 0.02 percent of students who took last year's college entrance exam were later found to have cheated, according to figures from the ministry.
Iranian-born Bahram Sahami, 37, cheated at American roulette by adding or removing chips from the table after the ball had dropped or by stealing other players' chips, Scotland Yard said.
People can also vent their feelings by posting stories of being cheated on.
They focus on the important effect of "re-awarding" on cheating incentives, that is, whether the prize to the top-ranked contestant passes by default to the second-ranked contestant if the winner is found to have cheated.
The survey examined cheating students by the following criteria: a) major, b) those who have cheated, c) those who have been asked to cheat, d) those who would assist, and e) those who found cheating acceptable.
24% of the sample stated that they only cheated one to three times during their enrollment, 10% for four to six times, 4% cheated seven to nine times, while only 2% cheated more then ten times.