cheat vs humbug

cheat

verb
  • To deceive; to fool; to trick. 

  • 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. 

  • To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable. 

  • To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. 

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

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

  • Someone who cheats. 

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

  • The weed cheatgrass. 

humbug

verb
  • To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive. 

  • To fight; to act tough. 

intj
  • Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish! 

noun
  • Nonsense. 

  • A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern. 

  • A hoax, jest, or prank. 

  • A fight. 

  • A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy. 

  • A false arrest on trumped-up charges. 

  • The piglet of the wild boar. 

  • A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite. 

  • Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial. 

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