cheat
verb (used with object)
to defraud; swindle.
had been cheating
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past perfect progressiveof cheat.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Most significantly, it overturned a New York minimum wage law in a decision known as Tipaldo, after its detestable protagonist, the owner of a laundry who had been cheating his laundresses of their legal wages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
Flowers wrote the lyrics when he was about 20, after discovering his girlfriend had been cheating on him.
From BBC ● May 8, 2024
That followed the discovery due to a whistleblower that Daihatsu Motor Corp. had been cheating on its testing for decades.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
Which was followed up by another bestseller about how she learned that her husband had been cheating on her and how they struggled to save the marriage.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2022
Of course, it had been cheating when I’d done it too, but I preferred not to dwell on that fact.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
