shortchanging
Giving insufficient payment
Shortchanging is giving someone less money back than they're owed in a transaction, whether by accident or deliberate cheating.
The figurative sense has become more common: to shortchange someone is to give them less than they deserve or were promised.
The city's students have been shortchanged by years of budget cuts.
I felt shortchanged by the rushed ending of an otherwise great novel.
Fraudulent taking of money
- cheatingDeceptive rule-breaking
- scamDishonest money-making scheme
- conArgument against
- ripoffFraudulent overcharge
grift · skimming · embezzlement · flimflam · overcharging · pocketing · skimping · stiffing
Compensating below fair value
- stintingRestricting supply grudgingly
- skimpingProviding less than needed
- withholdingKeeping from another
- denyingRefusing to acknowledge
depriving · gypping · undervaluing · undercutting · shortfall · deficit · insufficiency · inadequacy
Causing false belief
- dupingDeliberately misleading another
- hoodwinkingDeliberately misleading someone
- bamboozlingDeceiving through confusion
- trickingAct of deceiving
misleading · misrepresenting · conning · fooling · manipulating · bait-and-switch · misdirection · sleight-of-hand
Unjust or biased treatment
- inequityUnfair distribution or treatment
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- wrongingTreating someone unjustly
- mistreatmentCruel or harmful behavior
disadvantaging · disservice · slighting · underserving · neglecting · overlooking · dismissing · underappreciating
swindling
Fraudulent taking of money
ripoff · grift · skimming · embezzlement · flimflam · overcharging · pocketing · skimping · stiffing · bilking
underpaying
Compensating below fair value
- stintingRestricting supply grudgingly
- skimpingProviding less than needed
- withholdingKeeping from another
denying · depriving · gypping · undervaluing · undercutting · shortfall · deficit · insufficiency · inadequacy · owed
deceiving
Causing false belief
- dupingDeliberately misleading another
- hoodwinkingDeliberately misleading someone
- bamboozlingDeceiving through confusion
tricking · misleading · misrepresenting · conning · fooling · manipulating · bait-and-switch · misdirection · sleight-of-hand · hustle
unfairness
Unjust or biased treatment
- inequityUnfair distribution or treatment
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- wrongingTreating someone unjustly
mistreatment · disadvantaging · disservice · slighting · underserving · neglecting · overlooking · dismissing · underappreciating · underestimating
- downplayingminimizing, downplay, trivializing, belittling, soft-pedal
shortchangingoverpaying
Spending beyond fair value
overcompensating · making whole · overtipping · settling up · settling accounts
shortchangingoverindulging
Consuming to excess
spoiling · lavishing · going above and beyond · overdelivering · honoring