Definition for Fraud:

• Deceit; artiflce; trick; cheat; a humbug.

Synonyms for Fraud:

• adj.

  •affected (adjective)
  • artificial,
  • unnatural,
  • false,
  • playacting.

• n.

  •
  • crook,
  • brown-nose,
  • fixer.
  •
  • imaginings.
  •
  • contempt,
  • conspiracy,
  • blackmail,
  • gyp,
  • defamation,
  • bigamy,
  • agriterrorism,
  • bioterrorism,
  • honest.
  •
  • true,
  • e-fraud.
  •bluff (noun)
  • front,
  • pretense,
  • ruse,
  • pretext,
  • show,
  • delusion,
  • facade.
  •charlatan (noun)
  • con artist.
  •cheat (noun)
  • hustle,
  • baloney,
  • dodge,
  • spoof,
  • snow job.
  •chicanery (noun)
  • maneuver,
  • cheating,
  • machination,
  • stratagem,
  • sophistry.
  •confidence man (noun)
  • con man.
  •corruption (noun)
  • crookedness,
  • fiddling.
  •counterfeit (noun)
  • dummy,
  • actor,
  • copy,
  • pseudo,
  • imitation.
  •cunning (noun)
  • wile.
  •deceiver (noun)
  • deceiver,
  • phony,
  • counterfeiter,
  • criminal,
  • Defrauder,
  • forger.
  •deception (noun)
  • hoax,
  • flimflammery.
  •dishonesty (noun)
  • perfidy,
  • indirection,
  • infidelity,
  • Improbity,
  • wiliness.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • fable,
  • perjury,
  • fakery,
  • feigning.
  •fraud (noun)
  • hoaxer,
  • treachery,
  • imposture,
  • dupery,
  • role player,
  • Swindling,
  • sting,
  • misrepresentation,
  • pseud,
  • Duping,
  • guile,
  • artifice,
  • hoodwinking,
  • duplicity,
  • bluffer.
  •hypocrite (noun)
  • masquerader,
  • playactor,
  • Attitudinizer,
  • tartuffe,
  • Dissimulator,
  • dissembler,
  • hypocrite.
  •impostor (noun)
  • impersonator.
  •pretension (noun)
  • device,
  • claim,
  • cover,
  • mannerism,
  • air,
  • pose,
  • impersonation,
  • charade,
  • artificiality,
  • affectation,
  • pretension,
  • stage,
  • guise,
  • masquerade,
  • forgery,
  • disguise,
  • gimmick,
  • ostentation.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • politician,
  • hallucination,
  • Trafficking,
  • scoundrel,
  • con woman,
  • liar,
  • apple polisher,
  • influence-peddling,
  • malpractice,
  • pharisee,
  • phantasmagoria,
  • CONMAN,
  • smoothie,
  • sycophant,
  • viper,
  • varlet,
  • simulacrum,
  • wheeler dealer,
  • cyberfraud,
  • manipulator,
  • Phantasm,
  • mirage,
  • shill,
  • trickster,
  • shyster,
  • simulation.
  •
  • myth,
  • corruption,
  • flimflam,
  • worm,
  • fantasy,
  • mountebank,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • illusion,
  • apparition,
  • fiddler,
  • graft.
  •
  • traffic.
  •
  • fancy.
  •betrayer
  • judas.
  •deceive
  • cozen.
  •manipulator
  • operator.
  •Other relevant words:
  • gammon,
  • Whited Sepulchre,
  • betrayal,
  • seeming,
  • whited sepulcher,
  • Dissemblance,
  • make-believe,
  • appropriation,
  • jugglery,
  • foxiness,
  • manoeuvre,
  • equivocation,
  • blind,
  • canter,
  • rip off,
  • pietism,
  • deceitful,
  • betray,
  • Pilfering,
  • Snatching,
  • attitudinizing,
  • Gerrymandering,
  • exhausted,
  • monkey business,
  • lying,
  • deceptiveness,
  • tinsel,
  • spieler,
  • evasiveness,
  • exhibitionist,
  • Story-teller,
  • lurk,
  • tired,
  • paste,
  • delude,
  • shrewdness,
  • pilferage,
  • above,
  • Blague,
  • coloring,
  • cunning,
  • speciousness,
  • sacerdotalism,
  • threadbare,
  • barracuda,
  • show-off,
  • hackneyed,
  • swizzle,
  • tricky,
  • bunko steerer,
  • lip reverence,
  • bigotry,
  • caper,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • Sabbatism,
  • antic,
  • Boosting,
  • postiche,
  • factitious,
  • posing,
  • ADJ,
  • illicit business,
  • bosh,
  • dissembling,
  • Pecksniff,
  • distortion,
  • mock,
  • pinchbeck,
  • false show,
  • guilefulness,
  • Formalist,
  • Capper,
  • navigate,
  • travesty,
  • craft,
  • imposition,
  • bend,
  • varnish,
  • diddling,
  • twaddle,
  • tarradiddle,
  • crookery,
  • artful,
  • phoney,
  • bogus,
  • parody,
  • falseheartedness,
  • Flam,
  • colouring,
  • deceptive,
  • fraudulent,
  • posture,
  • contrivance,
  • appearance,
  • four-flushing,
  • imitative,
  • juggler,
  • pasquinade,
  • grand larceny,
  • designate,
  • invention,
  • Swiping,
  • blue laws,
  • pretence,
  • cant,
  • corrupt,
  • Defrauding,
  • lampoon,
  • put-up job,
  • defalcator,
  • fictional,
  • crooked,
  • white lie,
  • thievery,
  • imply,
  • sendup,
  • jiggery-pokery,
  • shuffling,
  • insincerity,
  • ringer,
  • shoddy,
  • Histrion,
  • mental reservation,
  • acting,
  • intriguing,
  • hollow man,
  • diddle,
  • deceive,
  • signify,
  • pettifogging,
  • suppressio veri,
  • crafty,
  • petty larceny,
  • player,
  • circumvent,
  • tosh,
  • skulker,
  • poaching,
  • straw man,
  • boloney,
  • specious,
  • MALA FIDES,
  • prevarication,
  • disingenuousness,
  • mystification,
  • lip devotion,
  • bilgewater,
  • takeoff,
  • treason,
  • poser,
  • fiddle,
  • face,
  • Pietist,
  • liberation,
  • perversion,
  • big shot,
  • thespian,
  • Sabbatarianism,
  • Lifting,
  • hoodwink,
  • interesting,
  • put on,
  • Inveigler,
  • supernatural,
  • stealing,
  • tergiversation,
  • Precisianism,
  • twister,
  • sharper,
  • ramp,
  • snitching,
  • malingerer,
  • skulk,
  • disgrace,
  • suggestio falsi,
  • Thimblerigging,
  • forswearing,
  • villain,
  • cheater,
  • roguery,
  • evasion,
  • fencing,
  • Bluffing,
  • artfulness,
  • bamboozle,
  • untruthfulness,
  • poseur,
  • cozenage,
  • bilk,
  • formalism,
  • defraud,
  • prejudice,
  • Juke,
  • false witness,
  • swizz,
  • dishonor,
  • treacherous,
  • skulduggery,
  • Misdevotion,
  • scrounging,
  • lip service,
  • austerity,
  • credibility gap,
  • Cunningness,
  • conceal,
  • gloss,
  • conversion,
  • confidence trick,
  • representation,
  • deceitfulness,
  • Manoeuvrer,
  • craftiness,
  • Mannerist,
  • Thimblerigger,
  • art,
  • Filching,
  • supercherie,
  • junk,
  • color,
  • meretriciousness,
  • shifty,
  • clinquant,
  • tommyrot,
  • drool,
  • finesse,
  • Affecter,
  • perjurer,
  • odium theologicum,
  • annexation,
  • Pinching,
  • Posturer,
  • game,
  • obstinacy,
  • fakir,
  • concealment,
  • shoplifting,
  • joke,
  • prank,
  • pretend,
  • man of straw,
  • dishonest,
  • fictitious,
  • window dressing,
  • mislead,
  • means,
  • snake oil,
  • confidence man,
  • conveyance,
  • irony,
  • wise guy,
  • taradiddle,
  • beguile,
  • semblance,
  • gouge,
  • machinator,
  • instruct,
  • faking,
  • smooth operator,
  • carpetbagger,
  • disrepute,
  • Humbuggery,
  • Saltimbanco,
  • curve,
  • performer,
  • confidence game,
  • Counterfeiting,
  • abstraction,
  • gilt,
  • burlesque,
  • exaggeration,
  • grotesque,
  • finagler,
  • big wheel,
  • untruth,
  • dishonorable,
  • theft.

Paraphrases for Fraud:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Swindling.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    trickery.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    fraudulent, anti-fraud.
  • Proper noun, singular
    fraudulent, SCAMS, anti-fraud.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    scam, fraudster, fraudulent, swindle.
  • Verb, past tense
    rigged.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    wrongdoing, impostor, malfeasance, charlatan, usurpation, imposter, sham, swindler, hoax, smuggling, counterfeiter, rip-off, bribery, fake, misconduct, avoidance, falsifying, forger, circumvention, crook, irregularity, truffle.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    racketeering, evasion.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Counterfeiting, embezzlement, misappropriation, dishonesty, racketeering, abuse, theft, adulteration, evasion.

Antonyms for Fraud:

• adj.

  • affected
    unimpaired, unchanged, unhurt, ok, uninjured.

• n.

  • chicanery
    forthrightness, truthfulness.
  • corruption
    honor, decency, wholesomeness.
  • counterfeit
    real thing, reality.
  • fraud
    honesty, fairness, justice.
  • Other antonyms:
    innocence, uprightness, openness, simplicity.

Hypernym for Fraud:

• n.

  • act
    fraud in fact, mail fraud, rig, extrinsic fraud, fraud in the factum, intrinsic fraud, identity theft, election fraud, positive fraud, cheat, constructive fraud, collateral fraud, swindle, Barratry, fraud in the inducement, legal fraud.

Hyponym for Fraud:

• n.

  • act
    crime, criminal offense, law-breaking, criminal offence.