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Cheating vs Lying - What's the difference?

cheating | lying |

As verbs the difference between cheating and lying

is that cheating is present participle of lang=en while lying is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between cheating and lying

is that cheating is an act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

As an adjective cheating

is unsporting or underhand.

cheating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia cheating)
  • An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition.
  • * Edward Bulwer Lytton
    • the cheatings and impositions of your pitiful trade

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unsporting or underhand.
  • Unfaithful or adulterous.

    • Anagrams

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    lying

    English

    (wikipedia lying)

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?