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 equity, was not an employee and misrepresented and defrauded Perry and David Cree Crawford, another owner — at times threatening physical violence. —

Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 18 Mar. 2026 King joined the company amid class action lawsuits that alleged Xponential defrauded its investors. —

City News Service, Oc Register, 18 Mar. 2026 The agency has also taken on fraudsters, like its case against a solar panel company that defrauded residents that could yield nearly $20 million. —

Harvey Epstein, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026 Elon Musk’s use of the drug ketamine will be off limits to attorneys for OpenAI and its chief executive officer Sam Altman during an upcoming jury trial over claims that the generative AI company defrauded Musk by abandoning its nonprofit roots. —

Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 14 Mar. 2026 Federal authorities say Goliath Ventures defrauded investors of at least $328 million. —

Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2026 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 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

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So those Santa Ana constituents would be cheated out of services if the money remained solely in the First District.

— Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 17 Mar. 2026
Increasingly bitter about being cheated, and decreasingly able or willing to hide it, Rick exhibits erratic behavior that alienates his friends, his family, his band.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026