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Cheating vs Treason - What's the difference?

cheating | treason |

As nouns the difference between cheating and treason

is that cheating is an act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition while treason is the crime of betraying one’s own country.

As a verb cheating

is .

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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    treason

    English

    (wikipedia treason)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The crime of betraying one’s own country.
  • *
  • * 1952 , James Avery Joyce: Justice At Work : (this edition Pan 1957) Page 105.
    • Formerly, the punishment for high treason was of a most barbarous character…. Women were burnt. A male traitor was dragged or drawn to the place of execution and hanged; but while still alive, he was cut down and disembowelled. His head was then severed from his body which was quartered. The head and quarters, which were at the Kings disposal, were usually exposed in some conspicuous place—the Temple Bar being a favourite spot—after being boiled in salt to prevent putrification and in cumin seed to prevent birds feasting on them.
  • Providing aid and comfort to the enemy.

    • Related terms

    * traitor * traitorous * treasonable

    Synonyms

    * betrayal

    See also

    * sedition

    External links

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