Fraud vs Strife - What's the difference?
fraud | strife | Synonyms |
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
* Alexander Pope
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A person who performs any such trick.
(obsolete) A trap or snare.
* Milton
Conflict, sometimes violent, usually brief or limited in scope.
Fraud is a synonym of strife.
As nouns the difference between fraud and strife
is that fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain while strife is conflict, sometimes violent, usually brief or limited in scope.As a verb fraud
is (obsolete) to defraud.fraud
English
Noun
(en noun)- If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
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- to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud