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Play But Cheat Crossword Clue

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99%6Exact Match!
noun

• bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow

verb

• avoid (one's assigned duties)

• commit fraud and steal from one's employer

• play the violin or fiddle

• play on a violin

• manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination

• play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly

• try to fix or mend

33%5 Not play fair
noun

• weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

• weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

• someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• a deception for profit to yourself

verb

• deprive somebody of something by deceit

• defeat someone through trickery or deceit

• engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

• be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

25%9Cheat or lie
verb

• conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

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