Fraud: alternatives and connections

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.

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A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery.

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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.

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The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.

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A freak; a trick; a lie.

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To take out the entrails of (herrings).

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A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.

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To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.

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A ridge.

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One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.

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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

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To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.

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A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.

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One who, or that which, beguiles.

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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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One who cheats.

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The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; tr…

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Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

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Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

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One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.

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Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.

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That which makes smooth or sleek.

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The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

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One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.

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A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.

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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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imp. of Sling. Slung.

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imp. of Sling. Slung.

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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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The act or practice of duping.

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One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

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Alt. of Fraudulency

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A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

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An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

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One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.

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One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant.

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A ridge.

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That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.

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One who shams; an impostor.

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To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.

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