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cheaty

cheaty adjective: prone to cheating.

Adjective

cheaty (comparative cheatier, superlative cheatiest)

  1. (informal) prone to cheating.
    • Now, to recap ... ach, you don't need a recap: winning team disqualified; cheaty accountant spoiled play; runner-up team promoted to winning team.2009 March 4, Zoe Williams, “Paxo, you're a pint of mild”, in The Guardian
  2. (informal) Involving cheating; fraudulent.
    • a cheaty technique

Forms of cheaty

comparativecheatier
superlativecheatiest

Origin of cheaty

From cheat + -y.

Questions about cheaty

What does cheaty mean?
Cheaty means prone to cheating.
What part of speech is cheaty?
Cheaty is an adjective.

Words near cheaty in the dictionary

  1. cheatsheets
  2. Cheatum
  3. Cheatums
  4. Cheatwood
  5. Cheatwoods
  6. cheaty
  7. cheb
  8. chebacco
  9. chebaccos
  10. chebang
  11. chebangs

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