fraud

Main Entry:
deceit [dih-seet]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: practice of misleading
Synonyms: ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, cozening, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, entrapping, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, overreaching, pretense, slyness, smoke and mirrors, trapping, treachery, trickery, two-facedness, two-timing, underhandedness
Antonyms: frankness, honesty, openness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness
Main Entry: deception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misleading; being dishonest
Synonyms: beguilement, betrayal, blarney, boondoggle, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation, dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth
Antonyms: frankness, honesty, honor, openness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, uprightness
Main Entry: deception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trick
Synonyms: artifice, bilk, bluff, catch, cheat, chicane, con, con game, confidence game, cover-up, crock, decoy, device, dodge, fallacy, fast one, fast shuffle, feint, fib, fraud, gimmick, hoax, hogwash, hustle, illusion, imposture, jive, lie, malarkey, mare's-nest, pretext, ride*, ruse, scam, sham, shift, shuck, snare, snow job, stall, sting, story, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, trick, whitewash, wile, wrinkle
Main Entry: dirt
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: obscenity; immorality
Synonyms: chicanery, double-dealing, filth, fourberie, fraud, indecency, lubricity, pornography, smut
Antonyms: morality
Main Entry: dishonesty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lying; unwillingness to tell the truth
Synonyms: artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness
Antonyms: fairness, frankness, honesty, openness, scrupulousness, sincerity, truthfulness
Main Entry: double-dealing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: betrayal, cheating
Synonyms: bad faith, chicane, chicanery, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, foul play, fourberie, fraud, hanky-panky, hypocrisy, mendacity, perfidy, sharp practice, treachery, trickery, two-timing
Antonyms: forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness
Main Entry: duplicity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deception
Synonyms: Judas kiss, artifice, chicanery, cunning, deceit, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-dealing, dualism, duality, faithlessness, falsehood, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, perfidiousness, perfidy, skullduggery, stab in back, treacherousness, treachery, two-facedness, twoness
Notes: duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness
Antonyms: forthrightness, honesty, trustworthiness
Main Entry: embezzlement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stealing money, often from employer
Synonyms: abstraction, appropriation, defalcation, filching, fraud, larceny, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, pilferage, pilfering, purloining, skimming, theft, thieving
Antonyms: compensation, pay, reimbursement, return
Main Entry: extortion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blackmail; cheating
Synonyms: arm, badger, bite, coercion, compulsion, demand, exaction, force, fraud, oppression, payoff, payola, pressure, protection, racket, rapacity, shake, shakedown, squeeze, stealing, swindle, theft
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