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fraud
Synonyms and Antonyms of fraud
- Thousands of people lost money when the investment scheme turned out to be a fraud.
- The self-proclaimed psychic turned out to be a fraud.
ace, adept, authority, crackerjack (also crackajack), expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard
- charges that he had gained control of his elderly mother's estate by fraud
equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication
chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wile
falsehood, falsity, fib, untruth
hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facedness
artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdness
treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness
covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness
oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness
Synonym Discussion of fraud
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- magicians are masters of deception
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- indicted for fraud
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- a go-between suspected of double-dealing
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- obtained the papers by subterfuge
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- resorted to trickery to gain their ends
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