(n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
(n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
(n.) A trap or snare.
Example Sentences:
(1) TalkTalk said customers should monitor their accounts over the coming months and report anything unusual to Action Fraud.
(2) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(3) Casadevall said the pressures to commit fraud came from many sources - not least the competition for scarce funding for research.
(4) He is, by any measure, one of the biggest scientific frauds of all time.
(5) How much more is this than the amount lost to fraud?
(6) In April, Ronnie was charged with a series of offences relating to an alleged £1m fraud at the retailer.
(7) Compare the billions lost through tax avoidance to the £1.2bn lost through benefit fraud, an issue that remains the news fodder of choice for the rightwing press.
(8) Many have degrees or work in professional fields, and feel embarrassed by the fact they have become a victim of fraud.
(9) The speciality steels division faces a Serious Fraud Office investigation and some of its top staff are suspended , which could complicate a sale.
(10) This Comment explores issues concerning the control of fraud and abuse in health programs financed with public funds, specifically the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
(11) In a recent decision, Commonwealth v. Kobrin, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a psychiatrist being investigated for possible Medicaid fraud did not have to turn over all of his notes concerning therapy sessions.
(12) "No, it's a stunt, a fraud," cry Lib Dems, Clegg's leftie critics included.
(13) The once squeaky-clean Spanish royal family has become immersed in a growing fraud scandal that reveals how members of King Juan Carlos's family may have cashed in on the monarchy's good name.
(14) Transparency news Man of the week - Nigerian Fifa executive Amos Adamu: July – tells four Nigerian officials charged with fraud to fight in court to clear their names.
(15) We know that markets can be gamed, and that fraud and false information undermine their efficiency.
(16) Britain's Serious Fraud Office has launched a formal criminal investigation into GlaxoSmithKline's sales practices, piling further pressure on the drugmaker which is already being investigated by Chinese authorities and elsewhere amid allegations of bribery.
(17) GNM reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Awards or any feature thereof with or without prior notice due to reasons outside its control (including, without limitation, in the case of anticipated, suspected, or actual fraud).
(18) Most vacancies are now advertised over the internet and claimants are encouraged to apply online to help them prepare for the world of work.” The disclosure of the revenue generated by BT came after the Observer revealed that 85% of benefit fraud allegations made by the public to a telephone hotline or online over the last five years were false.
(19) In 2012, Britain was among the donors that suspended all direct aid to the Ugandan prime minister's office over allegations of fraud.
(20) Only shop online on secure sites Before entering your card details, always ensure that the locked padlock or unbroken key symbol is showing in your browser, cautions industry advisory body Financial Fraud Action UK.
Liar
Definition:
(n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
(2) Any MP who claims this is not statutory regulation is a liar, and should be forced to retract and apologise, or face a million pound fine.
(3) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(4) The Financial Services Authority today shut the door on so-called liar loans and warned that the days of homeowners remortgaging to splash out on holidays and pay off credit card debts may soon be over.
(5) If that is not enough, a rogue former special adviser to Gove, Dominic Cummings, has taken to attacking the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, as a liar over the free school meals-for-all policy.
(6) The Gayes’ lawyer branded Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond trying to emulate the sound of Gaye’s late-1970s music and copied the R&B legend’s hit Got to Give It Up outright.
(7) Her companion, a man in his fifties, also refused to give his name to the “Lugen Presse” (liar press, a term coined by the Nazis and frequently chanted at Pegida events), but is quick to add: “We’ve nothing against helping foreigners in need, like those poor people in Syria, but we should be helping them in their own country, not bringing them over here.” The demonstrations feel like an invitation for anyone to voice any grievance.
(8) If teen stars Gomez (a former girlfriend of Justin Bieber and the star of Disney's The Wizards of Waverly Place) , Benson ( Pretty Little Liars ) and Hudgens (Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series) wanted to obliterate their wholesome reputations, this was one way to do it.
(9) cries Gary Naylor, making a liar of me and the cast-iron GUARDIAN NO-SUAREZ GUARANTEE™ in the preamble.
(10) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
(11) I was reflecting on Trump’s momentum partly because he went from a reality TV wig-joke, to an outspoken liar, to a Republican candidate who didn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination, to a Republican nominee who didn’t stand a chance of winning the election, to the winner of the election who doesn’t stand a chance of destroying the world.
(12) Reacting to Johnson’s appointment as foreign secretary two weeks ago, Ayrault described him as a liar with his back against the wall .
(13) The independent member for Arnhem, Larissa Lee, accused Giles of being a liar and of putting a “wedge between people” and running a “toxic” leadership.
(14) The outburst came less than a month after the Conservative candidate came under fire for calling Livingstone a "fucking liar" in a lift after a row over their respective tax arrangements.
(15) But her father was able to produce her birth certificate, proving she was only 16; thereby exposing the Tehran regime as liars and child killers.
(16) Abbott’s adamant and explicit pre-election policy commitments of “ no cuts ” to education, pensions, health, the ABC or SBS has marked him as a liar.
(17) It's not nice feeling that someone thinks you're a liar, so I want her to know I'm OK.
(18) Round at the benighted NHS, the Mid-Staffs hospital whistleblower, Julie Bailey, has had to move home after being insulted, threatened and attacked by local Labour activists as a liar.
(19) His latest book is Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive.
(20) Livingstone also revealed what happened in the famous lift incident two weeks ago, when Johnson went nose to nose with him after an on-air exchange about their respective tax arrangements, and called the Labour mayoral candidate "a fucking liar".