Definition of fraud

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Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

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Stellular :: Stellionate (n.) Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc..
Defrauding :: Defrauding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defrau.
Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud..
Shirk :: Shirk (v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
Fraudulent :: Fraudulent (a.) Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest..
Dishonest :: Dishonest (a.) Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
Manipulate :: Manipulate (v. t.) To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns..
Deceive :: Deceive (v. t.) To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.
Trumpery :: Trumpery (n.) Deceit; fraud.
Rook :: Rook (v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny..
Suppose :: Suppose (v. t.) To put by fraud in the place of another.
Roguery :: Roguery (n.) The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.
Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract..
Gouge :: Gouge (n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person..
Fraudful :: Fraudful (a.) Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things..
Deceit :: Deceit (n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud..
Plunder :: Plunder (n.) That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud..
Underhand :: Underhand (a.) Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent..
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