cheater vs embezzler

embezzler vs cheater

cheater and embezzler both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheater	Yes	No	No	No
embezzler	Yes	No	No	No

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

cheater: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
embezzler: someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

Other hyponyms of cheater 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, 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, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

cheater (noun)	embezzler (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

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