(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.
Swindler
Definition:
(n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Kremlin swindlers have understood that paid commenters and an army of bots can't help them in any way with their 'ideological struggle for the internet'," Navalny wrote in his blog on Tuesday .
(2) Navalny vowed to continue his fight against "the swindlers in the Kremlin and the White House", the seat of Russia's government.
(3) The Middle is a family sitcom starring Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn; while Lone Star features James Wolk as a Texan who leads a double life as both a devoted husband to the daughter of a Houston oil baron and a small-town swindler with a girlfriend 400 miles away.
(4) He worked with the most gifted French directors of his day, from Godard (four films including the masterly Pierrot le fou) and Melville (three gangster pictures and Léon Morin, prêtre) to Louis Malle (in Le Voleur) and Alain Resnais (the eponymous swindler in Stavisky He became France's number one box-office attraction in two Philippe de Broca films: the period swashbuckler Cartouche and the espionage thriller That Man from Rio.
(5) Earlier this month, the bank reached an agreement to pay $1.7bn to settle criminal charges stemming from its failure to report its concerns about Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff's private investment service.
(6) The references to Armenia do not seem accidental – it appears that the authorities aim to demonise the Yunuses by portraying them not only as swindlers but also as enemies of the nation.
(7) They tried to portray her as a manipulative career swindler who ran a lonely hearts scam and spent time in jail.
(8) They include US dentists and middle-class Greek villagers as well as families of despots, Wall Street swindlers, eastern European and Indonesian billionaires, Russian executives, international arms dealers and a company alleged to be a front for Iran's nuclear-development programme.
(9) Navalny provoked special ire earlier this year when he called United Russia , the dominant political party headed by the prime minister, Vladimir Putin, a "party of swindlers and cheats", a nickname that spread like wildfire through young liberals dissatisfied with the country's ruling elite.
(10) Mayhew's account of the cheap goods sold on street corners that carry "gaudy labels bearing sometimes the name of a well-known firm, but altered in spelling or otherwise" will be familiar to anyone who has been tempted to buy a "Louis Viton" handbag or "Guchi" watch, just as the swindler who poses as a "Decayed Gentleman" and sends out begging-letters will strike a chord with anyone stung by email spam.
(11) Swindlers and legitimate fund managers both project an image of respectability and stability - and they both make promises about how much money they can make for clients.
(12) All this was no more than a swindler's just desserts.