The word "cheat" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you wish to refer to someone who has acted dishonestly in order to gain an advantage. For example, "He was caught cheating on the test and got an automatic zero for his answer."
It was far from a cynical attempt to cheat, any contact with the ball was clearly accidental and most people felt he deserved the benefit of the doubt.
If I was a carbon-guzzling corporation, I would probably cheat my way around this commitment.
'If you come to me and say, I hear you're a bigot, I hear you're a paedophile, I hear you cheat on your taxes, you bet your ass I'd stand up and defend myself because those are things I don't want to be associated with and I find reprehensible.
It's probably safe to assume a lot more Americans cheat on their taxes than make phone calls to the Middle East.
It's been conciliatory noises all round since Greene vowed to confront Olympic 400m champion LaShawn Merritt and call him a cheat if he encountered the American on the track.
And don't try to cheat with Siri, because I did that - and it's rubbish.
Elliot Elwood, a fourth-year medicine student at the University of Southampton, says: "I know someone who got disciplined for trying to cheat with a smartwatch.
Soderbergh was already showing himself to be a thief and cheat, like the best.
The other day, however, I was focusing on the theoretical ways to cheat the reaper.
But I also suspect he genuinely thinks the same way as Armstrong, that sport's most notorious cheat has been done over in the name of something that doesn't matter – if he didn't, it's hard to believe he'd use him in the video.
But when Sir Malcolm Bruce, the retired Scots Lib Dem former MP, popped up on Radio 4 on Tuesday to defend his beleaguered colleague, he recalled how Sturgeon once made an indefensible defence of a benefit cheat – I think he must mean this case.
