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fraud

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nountrickery, deception

nounperson who is false, deceitful

Word Origin & History

"criminal deception," early 14c., from Old French fraude "deception, fraud" (13c.), from Latin fraudem (nominative fraus) "deceit, injury." The noun meaning "impostor, humbug" is attested from 1850. Pious fraud "deception practiced for the sake of what is deemed a good purpose" is from 1560s.

Example Sentences for fraud

"Then I can only say that Captain Rushton was a party to the fraud," he said.

"I'll venture insurance is at the bottom of this fraud, Caradoc," hazarded Madden.

When it is complicated by fraud or other crimes, it is the latter only which are concerned.

You mean it for the best; but I could not be party to a fraud.

How was it you did not detect the fraud, if only by the voice?

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Synonyms for fraud

noun trickery, deception

blackmail
deceit
extortion
graft
hoax
misrepresentation
scam
artifice
barratry
cheat
chicane
chicanery
con
craft
double-dealing
dupery
duplicity
fake
flimflam
fraudulence
guile
hocus-pocus
hustle
imposture
line
racket
sell
shakedown
sham
skunk
smoke
song
spuriousness
sting
string
swindle
treachery
bamboozlement
duping
fast one
fast shuffle
fourberie
hanky-panky
hoodwinking
sharp practice
song and dance
swindling

Antonyms for fraud

artlessness
entertainment
forthrightness
frankness
honesty
openness
reality
sincerity
truth
truthfulness
fairness
justice

More words related to fraud

affected

adjective. changed in a bad or artificial way

apish
artificial
assumed
awkward
campy
chichi
conceited
contrived
counterfeit
counterfeited
faked
false
feigned
fraud
gone Hollywood
ham
hammy
high falutin'
hollow
imitated
insincere
melodramatic
ostentatious
overdone
pedantic
phony
playacting
pompous
precious
pretended
pretentious
put-on
schmaltzy
self-conscious
shallow
sham
simulated
spurious
stiff
stilted
studied
superficial
theatrical
unnatural

bluff

noun. boast; deceit

bluster
braggadocio
bragging
bravado
deception
delusion
facade
fake
false colors
false front
feint
fraud
front
humbug
jiving
lie
pretense
pretext
ruse
sham
show
snow
stall
subterfuge
trick

charlatan

noun. swindler

cheat
con
con artist
fake
fraud
imposter
mountebank
phony
pretender
quack
rip-off artist
sham

cheat

noun. trick

artifice
baloney
bamboozlement
bill of goods
bunco
chicanery
con
con game
cover up
cozening
deceit
deception
dirty pool
dirty trick
dodge
double-dealing
fake
fast one
fast shuffle
fix
flimflam
frame
fraud
gyp
hanky-panky
hoax
hoaxing
humbug
hustle
imposture
jazz
jive
plant
put-on
racket
rip-off
run around
scam
sell
shady deal
sham
shell game
snow job
spoof
sting
stunt
swindle
trickery
whitewash
wrong

chicanery

noun. deception, trickery

artifice
cheating
chicane
deviousness
dishonesty
dodge
double-crossing
double-dealing
duplicity
feint
fourberie
fraud
furtiveness
gambit
hanky-panky
intrigue
machination
maneuver
plot
ploy
ruse
sharp practice
skullduggery
sophistry
stratagem
subterfuge
surreptitiousness
underhandedness
wiles

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