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How to sign: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
Similiar / Same: deceiver, cheater, beguiler, trickster, slicker
Categories: offender, wrongdoer
Within this category: bluffer, decoy, dodger, double-crosser, falsifier, finagler, forger, fortune hunter, front man, hypocrite, impersonator, imposter, liar, misleader, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, swindler, two-timer, utterer
How to sign: deprive somebody of something by deceit
"The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money";
Similiar / Same: rip off, chisel
Categories: victimise, victimize
Within this category: beat, bilk, cozen, gazump, juggle, overcharge, victimize, welsh, whipsaw
How to sign: defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
Similiar / Same: chouse, chicane, jockey, shaft, screw
Categories: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
How to sign: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
"She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?";
Similiar / Same: cheat on, cuckold, wander, betray
Categories: cozen, deceive, delude, lead on
Within this category: play around, two-time
