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Barratry :: Barratry (n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo..

Honesty :: Honesty (a.) The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile..

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

Swindle :: Swindle (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property..

Blackmail :: Blackmail (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud..

Rob :: Rob (v. t.) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight..

Forgery :: Forgery (n.) The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond..

Trickery :: Trickery (n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

Betray :: Betray (v. t.) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city..

Deceitful :: Deceitful (a.) Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere..

Deceive :: Deceive (v. t.) To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.

Abusive :: Abusive (a.) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.

Fraudulence :: Fraudulence (n.) Alt. of Fraudulenc.

Defraud :: Defraud (v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld..

Sham :: Sham (n.) That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug..

Crook :: Crook (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc..

Rascality :: Rascality (n.) The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud..

Underhand :: Underhand (adv.) By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly..

Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it..

Circumvention :: Circumvention (n.) The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion..

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