Synonyms of the word

fraud

• n. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
• n. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
• n. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
• n. A person who performs any such trick.
• n. (obsolete) A trap or snare.
• v. (obsolete) To defraud.

beguiler

• n. A person who beguiles.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

cheater

• n. One who cheats.
• n. An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws,…

chicane

• n. (road transport, motor racing) A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially…
• n. (bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honours.
• n. Chicanery.
• v. (intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.
• v. (transitive) To deceive.

chicanery

• n. Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
• n. (countable, law) A slick performance by a lawyer.

crime

• n. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
• n. (uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
• n. (uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
• n. Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
• n. (obsolete) That which occasions crime.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To commit crime(s).

deceiver

• n. A person who lies or deceives.
• n. (usually preceded by "the") Another name for Satan.

dupery

• n. The act or practice of duping; the condition of being deceived.

fake

• adj. Not real; false, fraudulent.
• adj. Deliberately fabricated in order to deceive.
• n. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
• n. A trick; a swindle.
• n. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling…
• v. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
• v. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.
• v. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
• v. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
• n. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or…
• v. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers…

faker

• n. One who fakes something.
• n. An impostor or impersonator.
• n. (obsolete) A thief.
• n. (obsolete) A peddler of petty things.
• n. (obsolete) A workman who dresses things up.

fraudulence

• n. The condition of being fraudulent.

guile

• n. (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
• n. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
• v. to deceive, to beguile.

hoax

• v. (transitive) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously…
• n. Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

humbug

• n. (countable, slang) A hoax, jest, or prank.
• n. (countable, uncountable, slang) A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable).
• n. (countable, slang) A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Nonsense.
• n. (countable, Britain) A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
• n. (US, countable, slang) Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding,…
• n. (US, countable, African American Vernacular, slang) A fight.
• n. (countable, US, African American Vernacular, slang, dated) A gang.
• n. (countable, US, crime, slang) A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
• interj. (slang) Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!
• v. (slang) To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
• v. (US, African American Vernacular, slang) To fight; to act tough.
• v. (slang, obsolete) To waste time talking.

imposter

• n. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity or other devious disguise.

impostor

• n. Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.

pretender

• n. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
• n. A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.

pseud

• n. An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.

pseudo

• n. An intellectually pretentious person; a pseudointellectual.
• n. A poseur; one who is fake.
• n. (travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code.
• n. (Internet) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.
• n. Clipping of pseudoephedrine.
• adj. Other than what is apparent; spurious; sham.
• adj. Insincere.

put-on

• n. A deception, hoax, or practical joke.

sham

• adj. Intended to deceive; false.
• adj. counterfeit; unreal.
• n. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
• n. Trickery, hoaxing.
• n. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
• n. A decorative cover for a pillow.
• v. To deceive, cheat, lie.
• v. To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
• v. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

shammer

• n. A person who shams; a liar.

shenanigan

• n. (countable) A deceitful confidence trick, or mischief causing discomfort or annoyance.
• n. (rare) singular of shenanigans.

slicker

• adj. comparative form of slick: more slick.
• n. One who or that which slicks.
• n. A waterproof coat or jacket.
• n. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.).
• n. (slang) A swindler or conman.
• n. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
• n. (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
• n. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
• v. To slither, as on a slick surface.
• v. To con or hoodwink.
• v. To use a slicker on.
• v. To smooth or slick.
• v. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

trickery

• n. (uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
• n. (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
• n. (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
• n. (countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.

trickster

• n. (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions,…
• n. One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
• n. One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
• n. An impish or playful person.
• n. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).

wile

• n. (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice.
• v. To entice or lure.
• v. Archaic form of while, "to pass the time".