Meaning of cheat out of | Babel Free

Definitions

To trick (someone) into giving something up; to unfairly deprive someone of (something).

Examples

“Terence introduces a flatterer talking to a coxcomb, whom he cheats out of a livelihood, and a third person on the stage makes on him this pleasant remark, 'This fellow has an art of making fools madmen.'”

“My dear Sir William, my Marmion has won the cup at Ilsley and been cheated out of it.”

“If we just define lesbian as the way white middle-class lesbian feminists have mostly turned out to be, like much of the activist community in recent years, then we are cheating ourselves out of having a larger family.”

“Relieved, he also felt cheated—cheated out of that final scene—that concluding memory that had promised such insight.”

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