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(Entry 1 of 3)
marked by, based on, or done by the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value
- every new technology has brought with it a raft of defrauding schemes that make full use of it
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defrauding
nounSynonyms of defrauding (Entry 2 of 3)
as in cheating, swindling
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defrauding
verbpresent participle of defraud
Synonyms of defrauding (Entry 3 of 3)
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
Synonyms for defrauding
- beating,
- bilking,
- bleeding,
- cheating,
- chiseling
- (or chiselling),
- chousing,
- conning,
- cozening,
- diddling,
- doing,
- doing in,
- euchring,
- fiddling,
- fleecing,
- flimflamming,
- gaffing,
- hosing
- [slang],
- hustling,
- mulcting,
- nobbling
- [British slang],
- plucking,
- reaming,
- ripping off,
- rooking,
- screwing,
- shaking down,
- shortchanging,
- shorting,
- skinning,
- skunking,
- squeezing,
- sticking,
- stiffing,
- stinging,
- suckering,
- swindling,
- thimblerigging,
- victimizing
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