Definition of fraud

"fraud" in the noun sense

1. fraud

intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

2. imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player

a person who makes deceitful pretenses

3. fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on

something intended to deceive deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

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Quotations for fraud

A pious fraud. [ Ovid ]

Frost and fraud have foul ends. [ Proverb ]

Fraud and deceit are always in haste. [ Proverb ]

Under fair words have a care of fraud. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

One who lives by persevering fraud (a knight of industry). [ French ]

Where fraud and falsehood invade society, the band presently breaks. [ South ]

Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil The product of all climes. [ Addison ]

Only a woman will believe in a man who has once been detected in fraud and falsehood. [ Dumas, Pere ]

In treachery it is not the fraud, but the cold-heartedness, that is chiefly dreadful. [ John Ruskin ]

Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste. [ Franklin ]

What otherwise is good and just, if it be aimed at by fraud or violence, becomes evil and unjust. [ Law Maxim ]

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

fraud in Scrabble®

The word fraud is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fraud:

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fraud in Words With Friends™

The word fraud is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters fraud:

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Words within the letters of fraud

2 letter words in fraud (3 words)

3 letter words in fraud (3 words)

5 letter words in fraud (1 word)

fraud + 1 blank (1 word)

fraud + 2 blanks (3 words)

Word Growth involving fraud

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Longer words containing fraud

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