fraud

Plural: frauds

Noun

• Deceit or trickery, especially for financial or personal gain.
• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
• a person who makes deceitful pretenses
• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
• The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
• Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
• The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
• A person who performs any such trick.
• A trap or snare.

Verb

• To defraud.

Examples

• He suspected FRAUD when his opponent mysteriously pulled a ’Z’ out of thin air.

Synonyms

dupery, fake, faker, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, put-on, role player, sham, shammer, Scandaroon, Spanish athlete, bamboozler, bouncer, bullshitter, cheat, cheater, cogger, cony-catcher, crammer, deceit, deceiver, deceptor, fabricator, fabulist, falser, fraudster, gabber, grift, grifter, guiler, liar, losenger, mocker, pseudologist, rook, scam, swike, swindle, swindler, treacher, trickster, trucker, wernard

Related Words

embezzlement, false advertising, false billing, forgery, identity theft, predatory lending, quackery, usury, white-collar crime