scam

Speech parts

1. scam - Noun

2. scam - Verb

Meaning

deprive of by deceit

a fraudulent business scheme

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

con rook swindle diddle defraud victimize bunco hornswoggle mulct goldbrick nobble cozenage dodge wile bluff

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Antonyms

jupiter bazaar support help attention aid

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Hypernyms

swindle chisel rig cheat rip off

Hyponyms

short short-change

Phrases with the word

Uncle Scam mail scam deceptive scam scam artistry internet scam phishing scam

Anagrams

ACSM CASM CSAM CSMA masc MACS SMAC cams

Examples

The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it. Bobby Heenan

If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal. Eddie Izzard

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. John Coleman

Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us. Bell hooks

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam. Tony Snow

Close letter words and terms

scalyfoot Scalzi Scalzo scam artist scam artistry scam perpetrated through mail