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fraud

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fraud

1 an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value

  • thousands of people lost money when the investment scheme turned out to be a fraud
Synonyms of fraud

bunco (or bunko), con, fiddle [chiefly British], flimflam, gyp, hustle, scam, shell game, sting, swindle
Words Related to fraud

cross, fix

Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme

racket, rip-off

thimblerig, three-card monte

device, dodge, gimmick, jig, ploy, scheme, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile

gouging, overcharging, soaking

counterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug, phony (also phoney), sham

2 one who makes false claims of identity or expertise

  • the "blind" panhandler was just a fraud trying to con holiday shoppers out of their money
Synonyms of fraud

charlatan, fake, faker, fakir, hoaxer, humbug, impostor (or imposter), mountebank, phony (also phoney), pretender, quack, quacksalver, ringer, sham
Words Related to fraud

copycat, imitator, impersonator, mimic

actor, bluffer, counterfeiter, deceiver, dissembler, duper, feigner, misleader, operator, trickster

poseur

cozener, defrauder, dodger, fraudster [chiefly British], scammer, scamster, sharper, sharpie (or sharpy), skinner, swindler
Near Antonyms of fraud

ace, adept, authority, crackerjack (also crackajack), expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard

3 the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery

  • charges that he had gained control of his elderly mother's estate by fraud
Synonyms of fraud

artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, wiliness
Words Related to fraud

equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication

chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, 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
Near Antonyms of fraud

candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness

honesty, probity

dependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness

decency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness
Antonyms of fraud

artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity

Synonym Discussion of fraud

deception, fraud, double-dealing, subterfuge, trickery mean the acts or practices of one who deliberately deceives. deception may or may not imply blameworthiness, since it may suggest cheating or merely tactical resource.
    • magicians are masters of deception
fraud always implies guilt and often criminality in act or practice.
    • indicted for fraud
double-dealing suggests treachery or at least action contrary to a professed attitude.
    • a go-between suspected of double-dealing
subterfuge suggests the adoption of a stratagem or the telling of a lie in order to escape guilt or to gain an end.
    • obtained the papers by subterfuge
trickery implies ingenious acts intended to dupe or cheat.
    • resorted to trickery to gain their ends

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