cheater
Americannoun
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cheaters
plural
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a person or thing that cheats.
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Slang. cheaters,
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eyeglasses; spectacles.
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cheater
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at cheat, -er 1
Example Sentences
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Letlhogonolo Mogale, who binged the show days after its release, described Jonasi as an "serial cheater" and "opportunist who would do anything to satisfy himself".
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Jonasi Gomora, portrayed by South African actor Sdumo Mtshali, has been described by some fans of the show as a "serial cheater"
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
And anyone who said otherwise was a cheater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024
Even as the world branded him a cheater and fans blamed him for USC’s steep fall from grace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
Somehow, he'd been caught up in so many layers of deception: Willow Chance wasn't a cheater.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Our expectation of fairness and our disdain for cheaters, expressed in laws across human cultures, can be traced to social primates—evidence that our sense of justice has deep evolutionary foundations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Curtis claimed that he had written “a prototype” of software that would allow cheaters to alter votes using “invisible buttons” on touch-screen balloting machines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
California highway patrol is getting wise to jackets and mannequins by carpool lane cheaters.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
Those changes include trying to deal with the cheaters and "bots" - machines pretending to be players to level up characters without effort - and doing something almost unthinkable in modern games.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
The evidence was only strong enough to get rid of a dozen of them, but the many other cheaters had been duly warned.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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