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cheat out of en · VERB
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To trick (someone) into giving something up; to unfairly deprive someone of (something).
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.'
1846, Robert Chambers, Cyclopedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographcal, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, volume 1:My dear Sir William, my Marmion has won the cup at Ilsley and been cheated out of it.
1870, Mary Russell Mitford, The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends, volume 1: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.
1981 August 8, Maida Tilchen, Joan E. Biren, “Picturing Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, page 8:Relieved, he also felt cheated—cheated out of that final scene—that concluding memory that had promised such insight.
2012, V. D. Carroll, Out of the Prison House, page 178:
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