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Fraud vs Malengine - What's the difference?

fraud | malengine |

As nouns the difference between fraud and malengine

is that fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain while malengine is (label) evil intent, bad intention; fraud, deceit.

As a verb fraud

is (obsolete) to defraud.

fraud

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • If success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 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.}}
  • The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
  • A person who performs any such trick.
  • (obsolete) A trap or snare.
  • * Milton
    • to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud

    Synonyms

    * (criminal) deceit * trickery * hoky-poky * imposture * (person ) faker, fraudster, impostor, cheat(er), trickster

    Related terms

    * defraud * fraudulence * fraudulent * fraudulently * fraudulentness * insurance fraud * mail fraud * pious fraud * wire fraud

    See also

    * embezzlement * false billing * false advertising * forgery * identity theft * predatory lending * quackery * usury * white-collar crime

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To defraud

    • malengine

    English

    Alternative forms

    * male engyne

    Noun

    (-)
  • (label) Evil intent, bad intention; fraud, deceit.
  • *, Book VII:
  • *:I dare sey for good love she bade us to dyner and nat for no male engyne .
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.i:
  • *:the chaste damzell, that had neuer priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerie, / Did easily beleeue her strong extremitie.
  • *1641 , (John Milton), Of Reformation :
  • *:for when the protector's brother, Lord Sudley, the admiral, through private malice and mal-engine was to lose his life, no man could be found fitter than Bishop Latimer.

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