Intentional or negligent misrepresentation
or concealment of a material fact; making
statements that a person knows, or should
realize, are false or misleading.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
fraud (noun)1.
a) - deceit trickery , specifically intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right
b) an act of deceiving or misrepresenting - trick
2.
a) a person who is not what he or she pretends to be - impostor , also one who defrauds - cheat
b) one that is not what it seems or is represented to be deception, imposture
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
fraud (noun)1.
an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value
SYNONYMS:
bunco ( bunko), con, fiddle, flimflam, gyp, hustle, scam, shell game, sting, swindleRELATED WORDS:
cross, fix; Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme; racket, rip-off; thimblerig, three-card monte; device, dodge, gimmick, jig, ploy, scheme, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile; gouging, overcharging, soaking; counterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug, phony ( phoney), sham2.
one who makes false claims of identity or expertise
SYNONYMS:
charlatan, fake, faker, fakir, fraud, hoaxer, humbug, mountebank, phony ( phoney), pretender, quack, quacksalver, ringer, shamRELATED WORDS:
copycat, imitator, impersonator, mimic; actor, bluffer, counterfeiter, deceiver, dissembler, duper, feigner, misleader, operator, trickster; poseur; cozener, defrauder, dodger, fraudster [], scammer, scamster, sharper, sharpie ( sharpy), skinner, swindlerNEAR ANTONYMS:
ace, adept, authority, crackerjack ( crackajack), expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard3.
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
SYNONYMS:
artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wilinessRELATED WORDS:
equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication; chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, skulduggery ( skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wile; falsehood, falsity, fib, untruth; hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facedness; artfulness, caginess ( cageyness), deviousness, shrewdness; treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness; covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness; oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothnessNEAR ANTONYMS:
candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness; honesty, probity; dependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness; decency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness
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