fraud Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
noun a person who makes deceitful pretenses
shammer; imposter; impostor; pseudo; faker; pseud; role player; fake; pretender; sham.
noun something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
humbug; hoax; fraudulence; dupery; put-on.

F. fraude, L. fraus, fraudis; prob. akin to Skr. dhrv to injure, dhv to cause to fall, and E. dull.

Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.
(Law) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
A trap or snare. Obs.
To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud. Milton.
Wharton. Syn. -- Deception; deceit; guile; craft; wile; sham; strife; circumvention; stratagem; trick; imposition; cheat. See Deception.