[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That cheats; fraudulent, swindling, deceitful.

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1532.  Dice-Play, D iij. Such cheting craftes.

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1681.  Glanvill, Sadducismus, II. Introd. § 19. A vicious cheating knave.

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1712.  Arbuthnot, John Bull, III. vi. That Old Lewis Baboon, it is the cheatingest, contentious Rogue, upon the Face of the Earth.

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1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), V. 158. The cheating tradesman, if he is detected, shall be deprived of his goods.

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