Synonyms:
cheat, cheating
Meaning: a deception for profit to yourself
Usage examples
She wasn't cheating herself or Cutty: she was cheating convention, a flimsy thing at best.
Mr. Falkiner Wraye, after cheating and deceiving Brake, and leaving him to pay the penalty of his over-trustfulness, cleared out of England and carried his money-making talents to foreign parts.
I could have paid it with what I lost to Judson before I discovered him cheating." This was the first time he had ever alluded to the duel, and the thought of it, in Mary's mind, added a faint touch of fear to her feeling toward him.