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fraudnoun an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of valuethousands of people lost money when the investment scheme turned out to be a fraud bunco(or bunko), con, fiddle(chiefly British), flimflam, gyp, hustle, scam, shell game, sting, swindle cross, fixPonzi scheme, pyramid schemeracket, rip-offthimblerig, three-card montedevice, dodge, gimmick, jig, ploy, scheme, sleight, stratagem, trick, wilegouging, overcharging, soakingcounterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug, phony(also phoney), sham one who makes false claims of identity or expertisethe "blind" panhandler was just a fraud trying to con holiday shoppers out of their money charlatan, fake, faker, fakir, hoaxer, humbug, impostor(or imposter), mountebank, phony(also phoney), pretender, quack, quacksalver, ringer, sham copycat, imitator, impersonator, mimicactor, bluffer, counterfeiter, deceiver, dissembler, duper, feigner, misleader, operator, tricksterposeurcozener, defrauder, dodger, fraudster(chiefly British), scammer, scamster, sharper, sharpie(or sharpy), skinner, swindler ace, adept, authority, crackerjack(also crackajack), expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickerycharges that he had gained control of his elderly mother's estate by fraud artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, wiliness equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevaricationchicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wilefalsehood, falsity, fib, untruthhypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facednessartfulness, caginess(also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdnesstreacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousnesscovertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthinessoiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokennesshonesty, probitydependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthinessdecency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness deception, fraud, double-dealing, subterfuge, trickery mean the acts or practices of one who deliberately deceives.deception may or may not imply blameworthiness, since it may suggest cheating or merely tactical resource.magicians are masters of deception fraud always implies guilt and often criminality in act or practice.indicted for fraud double-dealing suggests treachery or at least action contrary to a professed attitude.a go-between suspected of double-dealing subterfuge suggests the adoption of a stratagem or the telling of a lie in order to escape guilt or to gain an end.obtained the papers by subterfuge trickery implies ingenious acts intended to dupe or cheat.resorted to trickery to gain their ends in the 14th century |