Synonyms:
fraud
Meaning: intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
Synonyms:
imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role_player
Meaning: a person who makes deceitful pretenses
Synonyms:
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
Meaning: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
Usage examples
"You are a fraud," she said.
This to be honestly, loyally, and without fraud.
This to be honestly, loyally, and without fraud.
"Conspiracy and fraud," said the other cheerfully.
Several instances of such literary fraud have been detected.
To permit Intromission, and to punish fraud, is to make law no better than a pitfall.
I can conceive this kind of fraud to be very easily practised with successful effrontery.
And by using well that authority which he had attained by fraud and violence, he has lessened, if not overpowered, our detestation of his enormities, by our admiration of his success and of his genius.
Mr. Wickfield, being so weak and helpless in his hands as to pay you, afterwards, several sums of interest on a pretended principal which he knew did not exist, made himself, unhappily, a party to the fraud.'
Adulteration by means of these leaves is by no means a new species of fraud; and several acts of parliament, from the time of George II., have been passed, specifying severe penalties against those guilty of the offence, which, notwithstanding numerous convictions, continues to the present time.