Synonyms for fraud
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1. fraudnoun

   Synonyms:
   fraudster, impostor, hoky-poky, trickster, imposture, cheat, trickery, faker, deceit

2. fraudnoun

   Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

   Synonyms:
   trickster, trickery, impostor, fraudster, hoky-poky, cheat, imposture, faker, deceit

3. fraudnoun

   The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

   Synonyms:
   deceit, impostor, trickery, fraudster, cheat, faker, hoky-poky, trickster, imposture

4. fraudnoun

   A person who performs any such trick.

   Synonyms:
   faker, impostor, cheat, fraudster, deceit, imposture, hoky-poky, trickster, trickery

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1. fraud

   A fraud is an act of deliberate deception with the design of securing something by taking unfair advantage of another. A deceit or deception may be designed merely to gain some end of one's own, with no intent of harming another; an imposition, to take some small advantage of another, or simply to make another ridiculous. An imposture is designed to obtain money, credit, or position to which one is not entitled, and may be practised by a street beggar or by the pretender to a throne. All action that is not honest is dishonesty, but the term dishonesty is generally applied in business, politics, etc., to deceitful practises which are not directly criminal. Fraud includes deceit, but deceit may not reach the gravity of fraud; a cheat is of the nature of fraud, but of a petty sort; a swindle is more serious than a cheat, involving larger values and more flagrant dishonesty. Fraud is commonly actionable at law; cheating and swindling are for the most part out of the reach of legal proceedings. Treachery is chiefly used of dishonesty in matters of friendship, social relations, government, or war; treachery may be more harmful than fraud, but is not so gross, and is not ordinarily open to legal redress. Treason is a specific form of treachery of a subject to the government to which he owes allegiance, and is definable and punishable at law. Compare ARTIFICE; DECEPTION.

   Synonyms:
   artifice, cheat, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, imposition, imposture, swindle, swindling, treachery, treason, trick

   Antonyms:
   fairness, good faith, honesty, integrity, truth, uprightness

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1. fraudnoun

   intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

   Synonyms:
   impostor, shammer, imposter, pseudo, pretender, dupery, fraudulence, hoax, faker, role player, humbug, sham, fake, pseud, put-on

2. imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role playernoun

   a person who makes deceitful pretenses

   Synonyms:
   histrion, imposter, pseudo, fake, dissimulator, faker, player, pretender, fraudulence, juke, role player, hoax, dissembler, put-on, humbug, shammer, actor, pseud, hypocrite, phoney, sham, phony, postiche, impostor, dupery, malingerer, thespian, skulker

3. fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-onnoun

   something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

   Synonyms:
   pasquinade, put-on, tarradiddle, duplicity, drool, twaddle, bilgewater, caper, burlesque, parody, baloney, takeoff, joke, mockery, tommyrot, humbug, pretender, charade, fake, faker, impostor, role player, hoax, sham, fraudulence, dupery, pseud, trick, pseudo, antic, lampoon, shammer, snake oil, travesty, sendup, tosh, boloney, deceit, taradiddle, spoof, imposter, bosh, prank

Matched Categories

1. • Crime
   • Deceiver
   • Trickery

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1. vijay

   money laundry

   Submitted by anonymous on January 12, 2020  

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1. fraudnoun

   Synonyms:
   deceit, deception, duplicity, imposition, imposture, guile, trick, cheat, chouse, artifice, stratagem, wile, COLLUSION, humbug, hoax

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1. fraudnoun

   Synonyms:
   imposture, deceit, humbug, duplicity, imposition, chicanery, wile, circumvention, guile, hypocrisy, malversation, graft, surreption

   Associated words:
   collude, collusion, collusive, connivance

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1. List of paraphrases for "fraud":

   frauds, evasion, deception, scam, fraudulent, deceit, cheating, frode, forgery, anti-fraud, swindling, impostor, imposter, rigging, swindle, counterfeiting, sham, corrupt, trickery, usurpation

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1. Attorney Matthew Schneider:

   The union has had a problem with fraud, embezzlement and corruption, there are a few bad apples and those people have been convicted.

2. Anant Kale:

   Employees are claiming the same expense multiple times. That happens more often than you can imagine, it's not fraud, but an honest mistake.

3. Jeb Bush:

   What I was talking about was the specific case of fraud being committed where there's organized efforts - frankly it's more related to Asian people coming into our country, having children in that organized effort, taking advantage of a noble concept, which is birthright citizenship.

4. Daniel Medwed:

   If it turns out these communications related to a crime or fraud, then the privilege claim is not going to fly.

5. Marc Short:

   The reality is that there was not enough significant fraud that was presented that would have overturned any of those states' elections.