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cheat

verb as in frustrate, thwart

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He agonized over their 22-year-old son, who had just witnessed his mother’s violent death, and vowed not to cheat the law with “subterfuge.”

"I didn't expect the hatred," she says, noting that some people see the use of weight-loss injections as "cheating" and a "socially unacceptable" way to lose weight.

From BBC

The first line seems right out of Putin’s playbook, laying the foundation that the United States was somehow cheated and may have no choice but to take land and resources away from a foreign nation.

From Salon

"The most high-profile concern has been around misconduct and cheating in assessments by generating essays and coursework," she said.

From BBC

“Just because someone will try to cheat the system, it doesn’t mean we don’t have over-18-and-plus laws on marijuana, on alcohol, on tobacco,” he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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