deliberately |
1. adv. Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally. | |
He deliberately broke that, didn't he? | |
2. adv. Taking one's time, slowly and carefully. | |
After being called upon, he strode deliberately up to the blackboard. | |
misleading |
1. adj. Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression. | |
2. v. present participle of mislead | |
3. n. A deception that misleads. | |
mislead |
1. v. (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction. | |
2. v. To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression. | |
3. v. To deceptively trick into something wrong. | |
The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin | |
4. v. To accidentally or intentionally confuse. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
cheating |
1. v. present participle of cheat | |
2. n. An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity. | |
3. n. (cinematography) 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. | |
4. adj. Unsporting or underhand. | |
5. adj. Unfaithful or adulterous. | |
cheat |
1. v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation. | |
My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner. | |
My husband cheated on me with his secretary. | |
After he found out his wife cheated, he left her. | |
3. v. To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely. | |
He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train. | |
I feel as if I've cheated fate. | |
4. v. To deceive; to fool; to trick. | |
My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000. | |
He cheated his way into office. | |
5. v. To beguile. | |
6. n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater). | |
7. n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. | |
8. n. The weed cheatgrass. | |
9. n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies. | |
10. n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code. | |