cheat vs strawman

strawman vs cheat

cheat and strawman both are nouns.

cheat is a verb but strawman is not a verb.

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

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

cheat: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
strawman: a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

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, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

cheat (noun)	strawman (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself	an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme	a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
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 (verb)	strawman (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit
deprive somebody of something by deceit
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

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