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Cajole vs Cheat - What's the difference?

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Cajole is a related term of cheat.


As verbs the difference between cajole and cheat

is that cajole is while cheat is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.

As a noun cheat is

someone who cheats (informal: cheater).

cajole

English

Verb

  • (transitive, and, intransitive) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.
  • * 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 12:
  • Then he cajoled with his brother, and persuaded him what service he had done him.
  • * 1820 , , The Abbot , ch. 27:
  • If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish?
  • * 1894 , , Only An Irish Boy , ch. 19:
  • He had tried bullying, and without success. He would try cajoling and temptation.
  • * 1898 , , The Battle Of The Strong , ch. 37:
  • [W]ith eloquent arts he had cajoled a young girl into a secret marriage.
  • * 1917 , , King Coal , ch. 8:
  • Schulman, general manager of the "G. F. C.," had been sending out messengers to hunt for him, and finally had got him in his office, arguing and pleading, cajoling and denouncing him by turns.
  • * 2010 August 4, Michael Scherer, " NonSTARTer? Obama's Troubled Nuclear Treaty," Time :
  • For weeks, the White House, the Pentagon and Senate Democrats have been working overtime to cajole , convince and placate Republicans.

    Synonyms

    * entice, inveigle, wheedle

    cheat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
  • My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
  • To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
  • My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
  • To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
  • He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
    I feel as if I've cheated fate.
  • To deceive; to fool; to trick.
  • My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
    He cheated his way into office.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
  • To beguile.
  • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • * Washington Irving
  • to cheat winter of its dreariness

    Synonyms

    * belirt * blench * break the rules * lirt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
  • An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
  • * Dryden
  • When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .
  • The weed cheatgrass.
  • A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
  • A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
  • Synonyms

    * (card game ) bullshit, BS, I doubt it

    Derived terms

    * cheat code * cheater * cheating * cheat on * cheat the hangman * windcheater

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