fraud

Speech parts

1. fraud - Noun

2. fraud - Verb

Meaning

Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

A trap or snare.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sham faker pretender humbug trick fake deception hoax cheat deceit impostor guile pseudo imposter fraudulence

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Antonyms

original help real bona fide attention aid

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Hypernyms

wile chicane crime cheat trickery cheater

Hyponyms

swindle rig cheat ringer barratry identity theft

Phrases with the word

investment fraud bigger fraud fiscal fraud mailing fraud health fraud wire fraud act

Examples

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. Jean-Luc Godard

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. George Orwell

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes

Under fair words beware of fraud. Portuguese Proverb

A mistake is no fraud. German Proverb

Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Fraturday Fratus frau fraud carried out through mail fraud in fact fraud in law