моше́нник — meaning in English

English meaning

• cheat verb To break rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
• conman noun A person who cheats or deceives others out of money or trust, typically through a confidence scheme.
• crook noun A dishonest person, especially a criminal or swindler.
• fraud noun The crime of deceiving someone to gain money or an unfair advantage.
• racketeer noun Someone who takes part in an illegal business, for example through fraud, bribery or extortion.
• rook noun A large black European bird related to the crow, known for nesting in noisy colonies.
• scammer noun Someone who tricks people out of money through dishonest schemes.
• swindler noun A person who cheats others out of money through deception.

Senses

моше́нник is used for these senses in English:

• cheat Someone who cheats.
• con artist A person who uses confidence tricks to defraud or swindle people after first gaining their trust with a series of confidence games; a scam operator, confidence trickster.
• conman A confidence trickster.
• crook A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
• fraud A person who performs any such trick.
• racketeer One who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loansharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business.
• rook A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
• scammer (slang) A person who commits fraud by making dishonest scams and business deals: swindler, cheat, grifter.

cheat — full definition

1. verb To break rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
2. verb To be sexually or romantically unfaithful to a partner.
3. verb To deceive or trick someone, often to take something from them.
4. noun A person who cheats, or an act of cheating.

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