Thesaurus results for DEFRAUDED

defrauded

verb

past tense of defraud

as in cheated

to rob by the use of trickery or threats senior citizens generally were too smart to fall for the fast-talking salesman's attempts to defraud them

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Recent Examples of defrauded Attorneys for Perry countersued, saying Aumann never had an ownership stake, was not an employee and misrepresented and defrauded Perry and Crawford — at times threatening physical violence. —

Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 25 Feb. 2026 Lacks evidence There is no evidence to back the president's claims that the Somali community has defrauded taxpayers of $19 billion. —

Abc News, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026 Getty Images Beginning about a year after his first campaign, Navarro defrauded his campaign committee by funneling cash to himself from July 2017 to February 2021, according to the DOJ. —

Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026 Toberoff says he was drawn to the case partly on moral grounds that Altman really had defrauded a charity. —

Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026 Watson, the once-prominent Denver developer behind Northstar Commercial Partners, and his firm were found by nine jurors to have defrauded investors in 11 real estate projects in Colorado and beyond by pledging to invest 5% of their own equity and then not doing so. —

Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026 The Ozaukee County judgment stemmed from a 2021 lawsuit filed by the Lees and others claiming Yang defrauded investors. —

Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026 Jacobus also defrauded members of his own family. —

Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2026 In 2006, a joint investigation run by the FBI and IRS – Operation Bullpen – busted a nationwide forgery ring that defrauded collectors of more than $100 million, and just last year, an Indiana man admitted to selling some $350 million worth of fake gear over the span of 20 years. —

Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026

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Visitors to the sites at Independence Park were cheated when they were cut off from facts that enable us to imagine ourselves in the lives of those who lived and worked there.

— Carol Quillen, Time, 21 Feb. 2026
To sum up the series finale’s key moments, in the college timeline, Bree (Cat Missal), in a rage of anger after finding out that Lucy (Grace Van Patten) was the person Evan (Branden Cook) had cheated with, releases the tape of Lucy admitting to lying about being raped.

— Emily Longeretta, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026