Synonyms for fraud
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : frawd |
| Phonetic Transcription : frɔd |
Top 10 synonyms for fraud Other synonyms for the word fraud
- bamboozlement
- bluffer
- charlatan
- cheat
- chicane
- chicanery
- con
- counterfeit
- craft
- crook
- deceiver
- double-dealer
- double-dealing
- dupery
- duping
- duplicity
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- flimflam
- forger
- four-flusher
- fourberie
- fraudulence
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hoaxer
- hocus-pocus
- hoodwinking
- horse trader
- hustle
- impostor
- imposture
- line
- mechanic
- mountebank
- phony
- play actor
- pretender
- quack
- racket
- racketeer
- sell
- shakedown
- sham
- shark
- sharp practice
- skunk
- smoke
- song
- song and dance
- spuriousness
- sting
- string
- swindle
- swindler
- swindling
- treachery
Définition of fraud
Origin :- "criminal deception," early 14c., from Old French fraude "deception, fraud" (13c.), from Latin fraudem (nominative fraus) "deceit, injury." The noun meaning "impostor, humbug" is attested from 1850. Pious fraud "deception practiced for the sake of what is deemed a good purpose" is from 1560s.
- noun trickery, deception
- noun person who is false, deceitful
- "Then I can only say that Captain Rushton was a party to the fraud," he said.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- "I'll venture insurance is at the bottom of this fraud, Caradoc," hazarded Madden.
- Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
- When it is complicated by fraud or other crimes, it is the latter only which are concerned.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- You mean it for the best; but I could not be party to a fraud.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- How was it you did not detect the fraud, if only by the voice?
- Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
- Do you deny that the image contained this hideous engine of fraud?
- Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
- And I feel as if I had obtained the honors he has conferred upon me by a fraud.
- Extract from : « Victor's Triumph » by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
- Have my successes been discovered to have been gained by trick or fraud?
- Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
- They more than hinted that they suspected some deep game of treachery and fraud.
- Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
- If he should happen to turn up, which he won't, why, you have only to brand him as a fraud.
- Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
Antonyms for fraud
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