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trickery
The act or practice of tricking; use of tricks; deception; fraud
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  1. The act or practice of tricking; use of tricks; deception; fraud
duplicity
The quality or state of being twofold or double.
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  1. The quality or state of being twofold or double.
  2. Hypocritical cunning or deception; double-dealing
  3. Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
swindle
An act of swindling; trick; cheat; fraud
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  1. An act of swindling; trick; cheat; fraud
scam
A swindle or fraud; esp. a confidence game
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  1. A swindle or fraud; esp. a confidence game
  2. A fraudulent business scheme; a swindle.
pretender
A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.
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  1. A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.
  2. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
  3. (Person, proper) In English history, the son or the grandson of James II
sham
A decorative cover made to simulate an article of household linen and used over or in place of it:
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  1. A decorative cover made to simulate an article of household linen and used over or in place of it:
  2. A person who is not what he or she pretends to be; fraud; impostor
  3. (Short for) pillow sham
charlatan
A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
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  1. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
  2. A person who pretends to have expert knowledge or skill that he or she does not have; fake; mountebank
quack
A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
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  1. A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
  2. An untrained person who pretends to be a physician and dispenses medical advice and treatment.
  3. An untrained person who practices medicine fraudulently
hoax
An act intended to deceive or trick.
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  1. An act intended to deceive or trick.
  2. A trick or fraud, esp. one meant as a practical joke
  3. Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means.
cheat
One who cheats; a swindler.
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  1. One who cheats; a swindler.
  2. A person who defrauds, deceives, or tricks others; swindler
  3. A technique that exploits a flaw or hidden feature in a video game or computer program.
swindle
An act of swindling; trick; cheat; fraud
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  1. An act of swindling; trick; cheat; fraud
flimflam
Nonsense; rubbish; humbug
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  1. Nonsense; rubbish; humbug
  2. A deception; a swindle.
  3. A sly trick or deception
gyp
A fraud or swindle.
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  1. A fraud or swindle.
  2. An act of cheating; swindle; fraud
  3. One who defrauds; a swindler.
charlatan
A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
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  1. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
  2. A person who pretends to have expert knowledge or skill that he or she does not have; fake; mountebank
fake
Anything or anyone not genuine; fraud; counterfeit
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  1. Anything or anyone not genuine; fraud; counterfeit
  2. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
  3. (Sports) A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
humbug
Something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud.
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  1. Something intended to deceive; a hoax or fraud.
  2. Something made or done to cheat or deceive; fraud; sham; hoax
  3. A person who claims to be other than what he or she is; an impostor.
impostor
One who engages in deception under an assumed name or identity.
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  1. One who engages in deception under an assumed name or identity.
  2. A person who pretends to be someone or something that he or she is not, as to deceive or cheat others
  3. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
mountebank
One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
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  1. One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
  2. (Historical) A person who mounted a bench, or platform, in a public place and sold quack medicines, usually attracting an audience by tricks, stories, etc.
  3. A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks.
phony
A fraudulent or dishonest person.
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  1. A fraudulent or dishonest person.
  2. A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
  3. A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
pretender
A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.
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  1. A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.
  2. One who sets forth a claim, especially a claimant to a throne.
  3. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
quack
A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
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  1. A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
  2. Any person who pretends to have knowledge or skill in a particular field; charlatan
  3. The sound made by a duck, or any sound like it
Find another word for fraud. In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for fraud, like: trickery, duplicity, cheating, swindle, scam, pretender, sham, charlatan, quack, deception and trick.

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  • "I'll bet he's a fraud," I said.

  • Lucian's own close investigations into Alexander's methods of fraud led to a serious attempt on his life.

  • And yet they do, because fraud is a small part of the overall picture.

  • In London four ale-conners, whose duty it is to examine the measures used by beer and liquor sellers to guard against fraud, are still chosen annually by the liverymen in common hall assembled on Midsummer Day.

  • The fraud was detected by a Jew, who was one of the envoys of Alphonso.

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