Pretender vs Fraud - What's the difference?
pretender | fraud |
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.
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
As nouns the difference between pretender and fraud
is that pretender is a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold while fraud is any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.As a verb fraud is
to defraud.pretender
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* dissembler * hypocrite * phoneyfraud
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