Obstructive vs Fraud - What's the difference?
obstructive | fraud |
Causing obstructions.
* I wanted to see his report on me, but my manager was being obstructive .
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
As an adjective obstructive
is causing obstructions.As a noun fraud is
any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.As a verb fraud is
(obsolete) to defraud.obstructive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* obstructively * obstructivenessfraud
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