intransitive. To act or speak falsely, use false pretences; to beg on false pretences.

absol. To act with or employ fraud.

With of (also †by), specifying the person who or thing which is used, exploited, or availed of.

To be or prove false to. absol. and intransitive. To defraud, deal falsely.

To fail in soundness or straightforwardness of conduct; to use shifts, play false. Obsolete.

intransitive. To use subtilty or deceit, to use shifts or dodges; to haggle, cavil; to avoid coming to the point, hold off, hang back.

transferred and figurative. To play tricks so as to cheat or deceive; to practise artifice or deceit with.

also frequently in jingling form wily beguily (and similar expressions) originally in to play wily beguile oneself (also later in various corrupt…

intransitive. To practise roguery, to cheat. Obsolete. Cf. cog, v.3

absol. Obsolete.

intransitive. To use underhand or dishonourable means to obtain personal gain.

intransitive. To practise imposture.

intransitive. To practise cheating. Obsolete.

intransitive. To impose upon.

intransitive. To deal fraudulently, practise deceit.

intransitive. To use deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose, esp. a legal, financial, or political purpose; to employ chicanery.

intransitive. To practise humbug; to be a humbug; ‘to fool about’. Also const. about: to make less progress than expected, to flounder about, to…

intransitive. To defraud a tradesperson by ordering goods to be made in such a way as to be unsaleable to anyone else, after which, if the…

intransitive. To practise imposture. to gag on: to ‘round’ on, inform against.

intransitive. To behave as a mountebank, to play the mountebank. Also transitive with it. Now rare.

intransitive. To play the jockey, play tricks, act fraudulently; to aim at an advantage by adroit management or artifice. Frequently in to jockey fo…

intransitive. (See quot. 1837.)

intransitive. To cheat or compete dishonestly; to collude in match fixing. In later use esp. (in Cumberland and Northumberland wrestling): to…

intransitive (slang.) See quot. 1851.

intransitive. To act in an underhand, indirect, or ingratiating manner in order to deceive a person or to obtain something. Also with around.

intransitive. English regional (northern and midlands). To encroach unfairly; to cheat. rare.

intransitive. To use dishonest or devious methods to bring something about; to fiddle. Also transitive, to ‘wangle’, to scheme, to get (something)…