(v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.
Example Sentences:
(1) The men are accused of running a near decade-long conspiracy during their time at the firm and are being charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, violations of the Clean Air Act, and wire fraud, the US attorney general Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday.
(2) A small number of contactless transactions could be made before the card is blocked However, the figure could understate the true level of losses as many customers are unaware that they can still be defrauded after reporting a card as stolen or lost.
(3) Barcelona have previously said of Bartomeu: “He made it clear that it has never been his intention, nor that of the club’s executives, to aim to defraud the national tax office.” Rosell resigned as president in January 2014, saying: “An unfair and reckless accusation of misappropriation has resulted in a lawsuit against me in the Audiencia Nacional [the high court].
(4) Then, earlier this month, a tentative legal settlement was reached that required Frey and his American publisher, Doubleday, to provide refunds to readers who felt they were defrauded in buying a book classified as memoir.
(5) Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo are contesting fraud charges in which the two are accused of defrauding Saatchi and Lawson of more than £300,000 while working for the celebrity couple.
(6) Prosecutors have cleared Messi of wrongdoing but are seeking an 18-month prison sentence for his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, for allegedly defrauding Spain’s tax office of €4m (now £3m) in unpaid taxes from 2007-09.
(7) NAF’s lawsuit accuses the group of conspiracy to defraud.
(8) The traces left on the body to all intents and purposes embrace a cultural "cul de sac" which risks being defrauded of most of its content by a lack of those propedeutics elements which painstaking reflection is capable of affording us.
(9) As an unsecured lender it is liable for this type of fraud – our defrauded customers have chargeback rights for any losses they face."
(10) Romania supports and applies measures to fight abuses of any kind, and the Romanian authorities condemn any attempts to defraud the existing national systems.
(11) Cohen said Trump and his university never defrauded anyone.
(12) The public admission by the man who led France's fight against tax evasion that he secretly defrauded the taxman and was "caught in a spiral of lies" is a huge embarrassment for Hollande, who promised that his government would be beyond reproach after the corruption allegations that dogged previous French administrations.
(13) The real division in Britain is not between London and the north, Scotland and Wales or the old and young, but between Johnson, Gove and Farage and the voters they defrauded.
(14) Disputes over what name to give the Blue Peter kitten are nothing compared to GMTV defrauding viewers of up to £35m in falsified phone-in competitions.
(15) Hayes, 35, a former UBS and Citigroup yen derivatives trader, was convicted of eight counts of conspiracy to defraud.
(16) In 2010 a family of Afghan immigrants accused Yaar, in a civil court in California, of defrauding them.
(17) Twelve Inland Revenue officials have already been convicted of fraud, corruption, conspiracy to defraud and drug trafficking.
(18) The plaintiffs, two Afghan-born brothers, Jamal and Ajmal Staneckzai, claim he "tricked, defrauded and deceived" them over the 2001 purchase of a house in Fresno, California.
(19) The length and complexity of international supply chains were key to customers being defrauded.
(20) Police have yet to recover the millions of pounds he defrauded from investors, which may explain why he has been able avoid the authorities for so long.
Gull
Definition:
(v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.
(n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
(n.) One easily cheated; a dupe.
(n.) One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.
Example Sentences:
(1) The normal bacterial and fungal flora of the seagull was established and it is considered that the C. albicans in fresh gull droppings would not materially increase albicans infections in man.
(2) People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality.
(3) Later that day, Collins, Perkins and Jones were observed meeting again at the Castle pub, moving on to the upmarket Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar in nearby Exmouth Market.
(4) Renal clearance experiments were performed on herring gull (Larus argentatus) and great black-backed gull chicks (L. marinus) to test the importance of parathyroid hormone (PTH), parathyroidectomy (PTX), and calcium loading on excretion patterns of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate.
(5) "It's the people who were persuaded to vote no who were misled, who were gulled, who were tricked effectively.
(6) The rate of isolation from gulls was 0.26% in the cold months and 3.0% in the warm months.
(7) Though waterbirds, including moorhens and gulls, live on the margins, and a thin scum of litter is visible at the shore, the reservoir is not intended as a home to wildlife, and any fish living here are accidental visitors.
(8) Nine of 16 gulls rigorously examined were found infected simultaneously with both species.
(9) Cloacal swabs collected from 264 ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) at four sites near Montréal, Canada were cultured for the presence of Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp.
(10) In view of the endangered status of Audouin's gull, there is a need to observe closely the developing trend of contamination in this species.
(11) Clinical, necropsy, bacteriologic, parasitologic, histopathologic, toxicologic and animal inoculation studies suggest that organochlorine (PBC, dieldrin and DDE) poisoning was an important factor in causing deaths of free-flying ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) in southern Ontario in 1969 and 1973.
(12) Audouin's gull (Larus audouinii) is a very rare species endemic to the Mediterranean basin.
(13) The Northern Ireland secretary is making clear this work will accelerate and the existing Operation Gull to tackle illegal migration to Northern Ireland expanded to close any potential backdoor to Britain post-Brexit.
(14) The nature of the vascular alpha-adrenoceptors has been studied in the herring gull, Larus argentatus.
(15) Landfill disposal of a fertilizer manufacturing waste product was associated with a die-off of gulls in New Hanover County, North Carolina.
(16) About one-third of oxychlordane in herring gull eggs was lost in 1 year under these conditions, but none was lost after freeze-drying when the homogenate was stored at -18 degrees to -28 degrees C.
(17) The rate for C. jejuni and C. coli, respectively, was in gulls from regional garbage dumps 78% and 4%, from the coast 58% and 21%, and from islands 47% and 47% of the isolations in the corresponding area.
(18) those feeding on other birds (sparrow-hawk 33.00 mg.kg-1 in the dry matter of eggs, hawk 239.98 mg.kg-1 in fat) or those associated with water (great crested grebe 11.97 mg.kg-1, sea-gull 11.24 mg.kg-1 in the dry matter of eggs).
(19) In 1967, shell thickness in herring gull eggs from five states decreased with increases in chlorinated hydrocarbon residues.
(20) The brains of gulls dying with clinical signs of neurologic involvement, and dead gulls with no other apparent cause of death, contained organochlorine residues of significantly greater levels than those found in healthy gulls shot for comparison.