Definition of fraud

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Fraud (n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

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Malignity :: Malignity (n.) Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud..
Shark :: Shark (v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark..
Colluder :: Colluder (n.) One who conspires in a fraud.
Take-in :: Take-in (n.) Imposition; fraud.
Stuff :: Stuff (n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
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..
Deception :: Deception (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
Rook :: Rook (v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
Underhand :: Underhand (a.) Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent..
Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny..
Cozen :: Cozen (v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way..
Gull :: Gull (n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
Fraud :: 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.
Unseat :: Unseat (v. t.) Specifically, to deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election..
Subreptitious :: Subreption (n.) The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts..
Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
Fraudulent :: Fraudulent (a.) Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.
Detection :: Detection (n.) The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot..
Imposture :: Imposture (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
Defraudation :: Defraudation (n.) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
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