FRAUDULENCY Synonyms
5 hypernyms for fraudulency. (close relations)
Best Synonyms for FRAUDULENCY
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| artifice | noun n | |||||
noun • a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) | ||||||
| cheating | noun n | |||||
noun • a deception for profit to yourself adjective satellite • not faithful to a spouse or lover • violating accepted standards or rules | ||||||
| chicanery | noun n | |||||
noun • the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | ||||||
| deceit | noun n | |||||
noun • the quality of being fraudulent • a misleading falsehood • the act of deceiving | ||||||
| deceitfulness | noun n | |||||
noun • the quality of being deceitful | ||||||
| deception | noun n | |||||
noun • a misleading falsehood • the act of deceiving • an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | ||||||
| dishonesty | noun n | |||||
noun • the quality of being dishonest • lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | ||||||
| duplicity | noun n | |||||
noun • a fraudulent or duplicitous representation • acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another | ||||||
| fraudulence | noun n | |||||
noun • a fraudulent or duplicitous representation • the quality of being fraudulent • something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | ||||||
| guile | noun n | |||||
noun • shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception • the quality of being crafty • the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | ||||||
| pretense | noun n | |||||
noun • the act of giving a false appearance • pretending with intention to deceive • imaginative intellectual play • a false or unsupportable quality • an artful or simulated semblance | ||||||
| sham | noun n | |||||
noun • something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be • a person who makes deceitful pretenses adjective satellite • adopted in order to deceive verb • make a pretence of • make believe with the intent to deceive | ||||||
| treachery | noun n | |||||
noun • betrayal of a trust • an act of deliberate betrayal | ||||||
| trickery | noun n | |||||
noun • verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way • the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | ||||||
| swindling | verb, noun, adjective v, n, adj | |||||
noun • the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme verb • deprive of by deceit | ||||||