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n. A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.

n. A piece of trickery; a trick.

n. One that defrauds; a cheat.

n. One who assumes a false pose; an impostor.

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.

v. To defraud

n. 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.

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

n. A trap or snare.

n. An act or course of deception deliberately practised with the view of gaining a wrong or unfair advantage; deceit; trick; an artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured.

n. Specifically, in law, an artifice employed by one person for the purpose of deceiving another, to the prejudice of his right; the causing or making use of the error of another for the attainment of an illegal object.

n. A position artfully contrived to work damage or prejudice; a snare.

n. A deceiver; a cheat; a pretender; also, a fraudulent production; something intended to deceive.

n. A person who talks piously, but is not pious at heart; a religious humbug.

To cheat; defraud.

n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

n. intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

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