CHEATING

To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.

"My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term."

To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.

"After he found out his wife cheated, he left her."

To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.

"He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train."

An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.

The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.

Unsporting or underhand.

Unfaithful or adulterous.