Synonyms for Fraud:

• adj.

  •affected (adjective)
  • melodramatic,
  • pedantic,
  • assumed,
  • Counterfeited,
  • ham,
  • spurious,
  • high falutin',
  • overdone,
  • stilted,
  • theatrical,
  • insincere,
  • stiff,
  • pretended,
  • studied,
  • shallow,
  • simulated,
  • unnatural,
  • pretentious,
  • false,
  • feigned,
  • schmaltzy,
  • ostentatious,
  • precious,
  • Imitated,
  • hollow,
  • gone hollywood,
  • faked,
  • contrived,
  • awkward,
  • artificial,
  • put-on,
  • self-conscious,
  • pompous,
  • conceited,
  • superficial,
  • apish,
  • playacting.
  •la-di-da (adjective)
  • la di da.

• n.

  •
  • crook,
  • brown-nose,
  • fixer.
  •
  • imaginings,
  • a figment of your imagination.
  •
  • gyp,
  • honest,
  • defamation,
  • child abuse,
  • criminal negligence,
  • bioterrorism,
  • contempt,
  • conspiracy,
  • blackmail,
  • contempt of court,
  • agriterrorism,
  • bigamy.
  •
  • e-fraud,
  • true,
  • false accounting.
  •artifice (noun)
  • artifice.
  •bluff (noun)
  • pretext,
  • ruse,
  • pretense,
  • bragging,
  • front,
  • show,
  • delusion,
  • bravado,
  • braggadocio,
  • facade,
  • false colors,
  • bluster.
  •charlatan (noun)
  • con artist.
  •cheat (noun)
  • hustle,
  • fix,
  • baloney,
  • Cozening,
  • stunt,
  • snow job,
  • whitewash,
  • wrong,
  • Hoaxing,
  • con game,
  • plant,
  • frame,
  • bill of goods,
  • dirty pool,
  • spoof,
  • dodge,
  • shell game.
  •chicanery (noun)
  • ploy,
  • sophistry,
  • plot,
  • double-crossing,
  • maneuver,
  • stratagem,
  • gambit,
  • furtiveness,
  • deviousness,
  • machination,
  • wiles,
  • cheating.
  •con (noun)
  • crime,
  • double-cross,
  • dupe,
  • take in.
  •con artist (noun)
  • clip artists,
  • fleecers,
  • barricudas,
  • bilkers,
  • scam artists,
  • con-artist.
  •confidence man (noun)
  • con man.
  •con man (noun)
  • con-man.
  •corruption (noun)
  • malfeasance,
  • fiddling,
  • payola,
  • shuffle,
  • Bribing,
  • skimming,
  • payoff,
  • demoralization,
  • venality,
  • crookedness.
  •counterfeit (noun)
  • copy,
  • dummy,
  • reproduction,
  • pseudo,
  • facsimile,
  • actor,
  • imitation,
  • bum.
  •cunning (noun)
  • wile.
  •deceiver (noun)
  • deceiver,
  • phony,
  • counterfeiter,
  • criminal,
  • Defrauder,
  • forger.
  •deception (noun)
  • hoax,
  • flimflammery.
  •dirt (noun)
  • Lubricity,
  • smut,
  • lubricities.
  •dishonesty (noun)
  • infidelity,
  • infamy,
  • indirection,
  • perfidy,
  • insidiousness,
  • criminality,
  • criminalities,
  • Improbity,
  • wiliness.
  •double-dealing (noun)
  • bad faiths,
  • doubledealing.
  •dupery (noun)
  • dupery.
  •duplicity (noun)
  • oneupmanship,
  • judas kisses,
  • one upmanship,
  • twonesses,
  • stab back.
  •embezzlement (noun)
  • pilferings,
  • purloinings,
  • mis-appropriations,
  • mis applications,
  • mis-applications,
  • thievings,
  • mis appropriations,
  • mis appropriation,
  • mis application,
  • mis-application,
  • mis-appropriation,
  • filchings.
  •extortion (noun)
  • ex action,
  • ex-actions,
  • ex actions,
  • ex-action.
  •faithlessness (noun)
  • in constancies,
  • in-constancy,
  • in-constancies,
  • dis beliefs,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • dis-belief,
  • in constancy,
  • dis-beliefs,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • dis belief,
  • ficklenesses,
  • un faithfulness,
  • un faithfulnesses.
  •fake (noun)
  • four-flushers,
  • four flusher,
  • four flushers,
  • makebelieve,
  • fourflushers.
  •faker (noun)
  • coiner,
  • coiners.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • fibbery,
  • half truth,
  • Untruism,
  • fallaciousness,
  • perjury,
  • half truths,
  • figment,
  • feigning,
  • fakery,
  • misstatement,
  • mis-statement,
  • fable.
  •falsity (noun)
  • in accuracy,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • uncandidnesses,
  • un realities,
  • un candidness,
  • un reality,
  • un-candidness,
  • un-candidnesses,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • in-accuracies,
  • in accuracies,
  • un-reality,
  • un-realities,
  • un candidnesses,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • in-accuracy.
  •foul play (noun)
  • cruel acts,
  • funny businesses,
  • foul-play.
  •fraud (noun)
  • misrepresentation,
  • Swindling,
  • duplicity,
  • sting,
  • shakedown,
  • Duping,
  • hoodwinking,
  • pseud,
  • racketeer,
  • string,
  • hoaxer,
  • imposture,
  • mechanic,
  • skunk,
  • guile,
  • bluffer,
  • line,
  • treachery,
  • Barratry,
  • play actor,
  • role player,
  • spuriousness,
  • bastard,
  • horse trader,
  • song and dance.
  •hanky-panky (noun)
  • hankiepankies,
  • mis chief,
  • mis-chief,
  • hankiepankie,
  • hankypanky,
  • hokey-pokeys,
  • sexual activities,
  • hankie-pankies,
  • mis chiefs,
  • hokey pokey,
  • hankie pankies,
  • hankie pankie,
  • mis-chiefs,
  • fooling arounds,
  • hokey pokeys,
  • hokeypokeys.
  •hocus-pocus (noun)
  • Hocus,
  • nonsense,
  • Mummeries,
  • Occultism,
  • magic words,
  • gobbledegook,
  • Hocuspocus,
  • mummery,
  • magic word,
  • incantation.
  •hypocrisy (noun)
  • dis-plays,
  • dis-play,
  • dis plays,
  • false professions,
  • dissemblings,
  • dis play,
  • unctuousnesses,
  • pharisaicalnesses,
  • glibnesses.
  •hypocrite (noun)
  • sophists,
  • playactor,
  • casuists,
  • masqueraders,
  • Pharisees,
  • masquerader,
  • two-timer,
  • lip server,
  • dissembler,
  • two-face,
  • dissemblers,
  • backsliders,
  • tartuffe,
  • hypocrite,
  • smoothies,
  • Dissimulator,
  • sophist,
  • backslider,
  • wolf in sheep's clothing,
  • casuist,
  • Attitudinizer.
  •impostor (noun)
  • impersonator,
  • pettifogger,
  • mockers,
  • scorner,
  • beguilers,
  • beguiler,
  • empiric.
  •indirection (noun)
  • in direction,
  • in-directions,
  • in directions,
  • in-direction.
  •intrigue (noun)
  • de-sign,
  • de-signs,
  • little games,
  • frameups,
  • frame ups,
  • de sign,
  • frameup,
  • de signs.
  •operator (noun)
  • Operators.
  •plagiarism (noun)
  • cribbings,
  • literary thefts.
  •pretension (noun)
  • device,
  • claim,
  • cover,
  • mannerism,
  • air,
  • pose,
  • impersonation,
  • charade,
  • artificiality,
  • affectation,
  • pretension,
  • stage,
  • guise,
  • masquerade,
  • forgery,
  • disguise,
  • gimmick,
  • ostentation.
  •quack (noun)
  • quacksalvers,
  • flimflammers,
  • bunco artist,
  • bunco artists.
  •racket (noun)
  • under world,
  • under-world,
  • illicit schemes,
  • swindlings,
  • under-worlds,
  • under worlds.
  •rascal (noun)
  • dis-grace,
  • dis graces,
  • good for nothing,
  • mischief maker,
  • re-probates,
  • re probate,
  • dis-graces,
  • dis grace,
  • re-probate,
  • cardsharps.
  •robber (noun)
  • de-spoilers,
  • second story operator,
  • sandbaggers,
  • cattle thieves,
  • secondstory operators,
  • de spoiler,
  • holdup artists,
  • de spoilers,
  • secondstory operator,
  • cardsharpers,
  • de-spoiler,
  • second story operators,
  • second-story operators.
  •rogue (noun)
  • ne'er do well,
  • neer-do-well,
  • neer do well.
  •scam (noun)
  • crooked deal,
  • hosing,
  • sucker game.
  •sham (noun)
  • hypo-criticalness,
  • hypo-criticalnesses,
  • pre-tends,
  • pre tends,
  • hypocriticalnesses,
  • hypo criticalness,
  • pre tend,
  • hypo criticalnesses.
  •swindler (noun)
  • double dealers,
  • doubledealer,
  • confidence artist,
  • confidence artists,
  • doubledealers,
  • double-dealers.
  •theft (noun)
  • robbings,
  • muggings,
  • lootings.
  •trick (noun)
  • dis guise,
  • dis-guises,
  • dis guises,
  • dis-guise.
  •trickery (noun)
  • bait switches,
  • bait switch,
  • bait and switches,
  • razzle dazzles,
  • razzle dazzle,
  • bait and switch,
  • razzledazzles,
  • razzledazzle,
  • razzle-dazzles.
  •two-facedness (noun)
  • two facedness.
  •underhandedness (noun)
  • under-handedness,
  • under handednesses,
  • under-handednesses.
  •wile (noun)
  • schemings.

• v.

  •cozen (verb)
  • be-guile,
  • be-guiles,
  • de-frauds,
  • de-fraud,
  • de fraud,
  • be guile,
  • de frauds,
  • be guiles.

• Other synonyms:

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

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.