All defraudation synonyms

noun defraudation

• betrayal — A betrayal is an action which betrays someone or something, or the fact of being betrayed.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
• blarney — Blarney is things someone says that are flattering and amusing but probably untrue, and which you think they are only saying in order to please you or to persuade you to do something.
• boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
• cozenage — the practice of cozening.
• craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• dirt — Design In Real Time
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
• imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
• insincerity — the quality of being insincere; lack of sincerity; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.
• legerdemain — sleight of hand.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
• treason — the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
• trickiness — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
• trumpery — something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
• fast one — a shrewd action, especially when unscrupulous or dishonest; an unfair trick, deceitful practice, dishonest dealing, etc.: He pulled a fast one on me by paying me with a worthless check.
• snow job — an attempt to deceive or persuade by using flattery or exaggeration.