Fraud
[frɔːd] or [frɔd]
Definition
(noun.) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage.
(noun.) intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
Typed by Judy--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
(n.) A trap or snare.
Typist: Sam
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Deceit, deception, duplicity, imposition, imposture, guile, trick, cheat, chouse, artifice, stratagem, wile, COLLUSION, humbug, hoax.
Checker: Virgil
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CHEAT]
Typist: Shelley
Definition
n. deceit: imposture: (Milt.) a snare: a deceptive trick: (coll.) a cheat: a fraudulent production.—adj. Fraud′ful deceptive.—adv. Fraud′fully.—ns. Fraud′ulence Fraud′ulency.—adj. Fraud′ulent using fraud: dishonest.—adv. Fraud′ulently.—Fraudulent bankruptcy a bankruptcy in which the insolvent is accessory by concealment or otherwise to the diminution of the funds divisible among his creditors.—Pious fraud a deception practised with a good end in view: (coll.) a religious humbug.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are defrauding a person, denotes that you will deceive your employer for gain, indulge in degrading pleasures, and fall into disrepute. If you are defrauded, it signifies the useless attempt of enemies to defame you and cause you loss. To accuse some one of defrauding you, you will be offered a place of high honor.
Typist: Marion
Examples
- In plainer terms still, the transaction, for anything that Lady Glyde knows to the contrary, may be a fraud upon her unborn children. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is rare, I think, that the fraud is so genial and so deliberate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Finally I said, This is a fraud--that is what it is, it is a fraud--and if I had had any sense I might have known a cursed mud-turtle couldn't sing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The world has recently begun to see through this kind of intellectual fraud. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If these Arabs be like the other Arabs, their love for their beautiful mares is a fraud. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Just as deceptive as plain fraud is the deceptive ballot. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Murder, manslaughter, arson, forgery, swindling, house-breaking, highway robbery, larceny, conspiracy, fraud? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- President, I indignantly protest to you that this is a forgery and a fraud. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The truth was, it was a base fraud--a snare to trap the unwary--chaff to catch fledglings with. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Can he possibly preserve a right to that character, if by fraud, stratagem, or contrivance, he avoids that payment in whole or in part? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I always did think those frowsy, romantic, unwashed peasant girls I had read so much about in poetry were a glaring fraud. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The cripples of Europe are a delusion and a fraud. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She is quite capable (according to my belief) of committing a daring fraud. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was a case--in my mind--of a deeply planned fraud, with the owner of the Diamond at the bottom of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- When this is done, it is generally the effect of fraud, and not of inability; and the longest apprenticeship can give no security against fraud. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Bounties upon production, it has been said too, have been found by experience more liable to frauds than those upon exportation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Frauds are more easily practised, and occasion a greater loss in the most precious metal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Both low wines and proof spirits are, to prevent frauds, now rated according to what they gauge in the wash. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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