Thesaurus results for SHORTCHANGING

shortchanging

verb

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present participle of shortchange

as in cheating

to rob by the use of trickery or threats was shortchanged out of a promotion

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Recent Examples of shortchanging Despite all of this, the market is still trying to figure out what Millrose is worth, and at around 9 times AFFO, Wall Street still might be shortchanging the REIT. —

Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026 The Hall of Fame, in fact, did nothing to combat its history of shortchanging female performers. —

Dan Kelly april 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026 Something that reflects how Dan Fogelman’s show is no longer behaving like a straightforward postapocalypse story and how this season’s narrative slips and slides through the timeline, increasingly shortchanging the series creator’s innate preference for sincerity. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026 Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office has fined two swanky Beacon Hill restaurants more than $420,000 for shortchanging waiters of a 3% service fee the Boston establishments were charging customers. —

Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 6 Mar. 2026 The county had long been credited by some for its fiscal acumen, while at the same time criticized by others for shortchanging residents on important services. —

Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026 Some rounded prices down to avoid shortchanging shoppers. —

Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025 Greenblatt’s myth of a Romantic Marlowe almost singlehandedly pushing England into the Renaissance betrays the principles of New Historicism by shortchanging the roles of so many other key players. —

Isaac Butler, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025 Perhaps in an effort to keep a veteran like Myers fresh for when the games count, while also giving Mancini an opportunity to demonstrate his ability to contribute on the penalty kill, the club had Myers shortchanging after defensive-zone draws. —

Thomas Drance, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

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And when everyone else in the classroom is a genius, cheating becomes a real option to stay ahead, especially in the sciences.

— Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026
Kevin appeared to reference his 2017 cheating scandal, which transpired while Eniko was pregnant with their first child.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026