Definition of Fraud

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Definition of Fraud

Fraud

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.

An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

A trap or snare.

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Fraud Quotations

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Edward Kennedy

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
Alan Greenspan

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Benito Mussolini

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
George Santayana

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
Willem de Kooning

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes

Fraud Translations

fraud in French is fraude, tromperie
fraud in German is Betrug
fraud in Italian is frode
fraud in Latin is fraudatio, dolus
fraud in Norwegian is bedrageri, svindler, svindel
fraud in Spanish is fraude, decepcion

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