May he live to find the happiness of which he has been cheatedso long.
A thrill of pity, half mixed with tenderness, stirred her heart for the father who had been cheated of the child he would have loved.
Was it not through her that I cheated the first woman?
And cannot I, who cheated Eve in Paradise, vanquish Anne in Britain?
He was stealthily counting the notes he had received as the price of his espionage, as if to make sure that he had not been cheated by his Teutonic paymasters.
The world had been cheated with words instead of things; and the new experimental philosophy insisted that men should be less loquacious, but more laborious.
You called them English Protestants till you cheated them of their money.
And now you come back here for help, saved by him whom you cheated in the Goose Kloof, by him whose true love you have tried to steal.
Judge Littlefield is just as bad--he cheated Taylor out of the election!
For a long time there has been an undercurrent of dissatisfaction over the way they cheated Quinton Taylor out of the mayoralty.
My mother's name was Vincenza Vasari--a woman who lied and cheated for the sake of her child.
Confess that you lied and forged and cheated | to gain your own ends.
But never before had Junius Peabody been reduced to a naked Junius Peabody, dot and carry nothing--penniless, desperate, and now cheated of a last hope.
He cheated the devil twice with me, and I ain't a-going to forget it.
Do you hear that, Jem Shock, the Snodgrass you've been believing cheated you in a land deal has come straight up here to see you just as soon as he got that letter of yours.
At Turin[373] one of the Batavians was cursing a workman for having cheated him, when a legionary, who lodged with the workman, took his part.
They had preconceived the notion of masking the St. Helena plan until they thought they had cheated the public into believing that they were inspired by humane motives and the necessity for the peace of Europe.
He had been cheated, he said, and swindled considerably, and had cheated and swindled others in retaliation.
I beg your pardon, sir, I have been used to be hunted and cheated and starved.
I know who has cheated father, if you come to that.
Nina and her father Josef Balatka live on the edge of poverty; he was cheated out of his business by his Christian brother-in-law, who is now wealthy.
When I cheated the Dutchman my only thought was to win the twenty-five napoleons, that was all.
I would much rather you had killed ten men thancheated at cards," she said at length in a very troubled voice.
Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Came in here to get cheated in buying a boat, and succeeded admirably!
Above all, have we not listened to contemptible fallacies of self-indulgence and indolence, and then cheated ourselves into believing them the sober testimonies of conscience?
The eye was sometimes cheated by a dripping from the rocks, which on closer inspection proved to be a resinous oily liquid with an abominable sulphurous smell.
But Wordsworth never will--never can die; and so we are in danger of being cheated out of our due dominion.
If you intend to man the fleet without being cheated by the captains and pursers, you may go to bed and never have it manned at all," he said.
The Naval Commissioners, in order to make their own profit, cheated and starved the sailors; they falsified the quantities of food that they sent, and what they delivered was bad.
Haven't we beencheated with fair promises year after year--promises that were as empty as a glass bulb?
You simply stand for the class that has oppressed and cheated them.
Rickman had driven a clever bargain over that Florio Montaigne; Rickman had cheated him, yes, cheated him infamously, over that Florio Montaigne.
Never for a moment did he allow himself to be cheated into the monstrous belief that its absence was, or could be unperceived.
It was bad enough to be so cheated in a hen trade, without having it thrown up to you almost every day of your life, in some silly joke.
And there's that old dorminica, the one that Kitty Mills cheated me with when we swapped hens that time.
He's a crook--he cheatedmy mother," Dick had said to himself.
I want to know what you're going to do about the way you cheated my mother.
He had told only the truth about Hallo, but he did not know everything, by any means, about the rich Hungarian who had cheated his widowed mother.
I will write out an order for you to take it--I will write out an admission that I cheated your family!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cheated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
