cheater vs figurehead

figurehead vs cheater

cheater and figurehead both are nouns.

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

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

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

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, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, 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)	figurehead (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	figure on the bow of some sailing vessels
	a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

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