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 Portland Trail Blazers guard Jrue Holiday was defrauded by former Morgan Stanley investment advisor Darryl Cohen, a Manhattan jury concluded in convicting Cohen of wire fraud and investment advisor fraud on Tuesday. —

Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 4 Mar. 2026 Federal agents allege Goliath Ventures was a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors in Central Florida and elsewhere of $328 million. —

Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026 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

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Some people like to vote on election day, said Dianne Clinkscale from Dallas, arguing that the county’s voters got cheated out their right on to vote.

— Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2026
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