Fraud vs Deceit - What's the difference?
fraud | deceit | Synonyms |
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
* Alexander Pope
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, chapter=1 The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
A person who performs any such trick.
(obsolete) A trap or snare.
* Milton
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
An act of deceiving someone
* {{quote-book, year=1998, author=Mike Dixon-Kennedy, title=Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology, page=125, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=2U7okUE3PIcC&pg=PA125
, passage=Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father. }}
(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
* {{quote-book, year=1611, title=King James Bible, chapter=Psalms 10:7
, passage=His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.}}
(legal) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
Deceit is a synonym of fraud.
As nouns the difference between fraud and deceit
is that fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain while deceit is an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.As a verb fraud
is to defraud.fraud
English
Noun
(en noun)- If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
citation, passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud , and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud
Synonyms
* (criminal) deceit * trickery * hoky-poky * imposture * (person ) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), tricksterSee also
* embezzlement * false billing * false advertising * forgery * identity theft * predatory lending * quackery * usury * white-collar crimedeceit
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The whole conversation was merely a deceit .