fraudulence
11fraudulence — noun 1. the quality of being fraudulent • Syn: ↑deceit • Derivationally related forms: ↑fraudulent • Hypernyms: ↑dishonesty 2. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage …
12Fraudulency — Fraudulence Fraud u*lence (?; 135), Fraudulency Fraud u*len*cy, n. [L. fraudulentia.] The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker. [1913 Webster] …
13fraudulent — fraudulence, fraudulency, n. fraudulently, adv. /fraw jeuh leuhnt/, adj. 1. characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes. 2. given to or using fraud, as a… …
14forgery — /fawr jeuh ree, fohr /, n., pl. forgeries. 1. the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person s name to any such writing… …
15Deception — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deception >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deception deception Sgm: N 1 falseness falseness &c. 544 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth &c. 546 Sgm: N 1 imposition imposition imposture Sgm: N 1 fraud …
16deceit — [n1] practice of misleading ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, cozening, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, defrauding, dirty dealing*, dirty pool*, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation …
17dupery — noun something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage • Syn: ↑fraud, ↑fraudulence, ↑hoax, ↑humbug, ↑put on • Derivationally related forms: ↑put on (for: ↑ …
18put-on — noun 1. a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement • Syn: ↑antic, ↑joke, ↑prank, ↑trick, ↑caper • Derivationally related forms: ↑trickster (for: ↑ …
19fraud|u|len|cy — «FR juh luhn see, FRD yu », noun, plural cies. = fraudulence. (Cf. ↑fraudulence) …
20Anachronism — An anachronism (from the Greek ana ανά , against, anti , and chronos χρόνος , time ) is anything that is temporally incongruous in the time period it has been placed in mdash;that is, it appears in a temporal context in which it seems… …
