cheat out of
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."