cheat vs sham

cheat and sham both are nouns.

cheat is not an adjective while sham is an adjective.

cheat and sham both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheat	Yes	No	Yes	No
sham	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

As nouns, sham is a hyponym of cheat; that is, sham is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cheat:

cheat: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
sham: a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Other hyponyms of cheat include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

cheat (noun)	sham (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself	something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme	a person who makes deceitful pretenses
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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

cheat (adjective)	sham (adjective)
	adopted in order to deceive

cheat (verb)	sham (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	make believe with the intent to deceive
deprive somebody of something by deceit	make a pretence of
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

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