n. 25B6; verb
customers were cheated : SWINDLE, defraud, deceive, trick, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull; informal diddle, rip off, con, fleece, shaft, sting, bilk, rook, gyp, finagle, flimflam, put one over on, pull a fast one on; N. Amer. informal sucker, gold-brick, stiff; Austral. informal pull a swifty on; formal mulct; poetic/literary cozen; archaic chicane.
she cheated Ryan out of his fortune : DEPRIVE OF, deny, prevent from gaining; informal do out of.
the boy cheated death : AVOID, escape, evade, elude; foil, frustrate, thwart.
cheating husbands : COMMIT ADULTERY, be unfaithful, stray; informal two-time, play about/around; Brit. informal play away.
25B6; noun
a liar and a cheat : SWINDLER, cheater, fraudster, (confidence) trickster, deceiver, hoaxer, hoodwinker, double-dealer, double-crosser, sham, fraud, fake, charlatan, quack, mountebank; informal con man/artist, shark, sharper, phoney, flimflammer; Brit. informal twister; N. Amer. informal grifter, bunco artist, gold brick, chiseller; Austral. informal magsman, illywhacker; dated confidence man, confidence woman.
a sure cheat for generating cash : SWINDLE, fraud, deception, deceit, hoax, sham, trick, ruse; informal con.