Home › Words › C › cheaterycheatery/ˈt͡ʃiːtəɹi/cheatery means cheating; fraud.cheatery is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃiːtəɹi/.EtymologyFrom cheat + -ery.nounCheating; fraud.e.g.“I touch not now the vulgar thought, as of tricks and cheateries in trade; / I speak of honest purpose, character, speech and action: [...]” — 1842, Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Honesty”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated (Second Series), London: J[ohn] Hatchard and Son, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.cheaty 76% match — prone to cheating. vs cheatery →trichery 76% match — Cheating; trickery. vs cheatery →cheater 75% match — Someone who cheats; something that cheats. vs cheatery →cheatingly 72% match — in a cheating manner vs cheatery →trucky 71% match — Cheating, cheaty. vs cheatery →michery 70% match — Theft; cheating. vs cheatery →cheating 69% match — An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity. vs cheatery →cheatee 69% match — One who is cheated. vs cheatery →