(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.
Malice
Definition:
(n.) Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.
(n.) Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness.
(v. t.) To regard with extreme ill will.
Example Sentences:
(1) After addition of triiodothyronine, malic enzyme mRNA accumulated with sigmoidal kinetics, approaching a new steady state at 36-48 h after adding hormone.
(2) In addition to detecting three major antigenic variants of malic enzyme within this group, both antisera readily reacted with Streptococcus faecalis malic enzyme.
(3) The oxidative enzymes of the pentose phosphate pathway, ATP-citrate lyase, 'malic' enzyme and fatty acid synthetase also decrease markedly.
(4) Hormone therapy also caused an increase in the rate of incorporation of [3H]leucine into soluble proteins and in malic enzyme activity.
(5) Moreover, the transcriptional rate, mRNA concentration and induction of malic enzyme were increased by triiodothyronine treatment at a similar rate in both the young and old rats, but the absolute increments were lower in the old animals.
(6) The TRH treatment suppressed mitochondrial cytochrome c reductase and glucose-6-phosphatase activities, whereas cyclo(His-Pro) reduced cytochrome c reductase and malic enzyme activities.
(7) Activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and malic dehydrogenase of the mycelial form were higher than those of the yeast form.
(8) These observations suggest that in the rat neostriatum there are some neurons especially able to catabolize pyruvate via cytosolic malic isoenzyme.
(9) Thus a long-lived event in thyroid hormone stimulation of malic enzyme synthesis occurred prior to transcription of a specific messenger RNA (mRNA), presumably malic enzyme mRNA.
(10) In the Ob 17 preadipocyte cell line, during adipose differentiation, T3 amplified the progressive expression of two enzymes of the lipogenic pathway, ATP-citrate lyase (ATP-CL) and malic enzyme (ME) as previously described for fatty acid synthase (FAS) and fatty acid synthesis, and in the same time-period of development.
(11) The nucleotide sequence of the mRNA for malic enzyme ((S)-malate NADP+ oxidoreductase (oxaloacetate-decarboxylating, EC 1.1.1.40) from rat liver was determined from three overlapping cDNA clones.
(12) The specific nuclear binding of triiodothyronine (T3) (NBT3) and the activity of malic enzyme (ME), glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD), and 6-phosphogluconate-dehydrogenase (6PGD) were studied in the human fibroblast cell (MRC-5).
(13) 2-Hydroxyisobutyric acid, ethyl-2-hydroxybutyrate, malic acid, 1-butanol, benzyl alcohol and L-leucine did not act as substrates for the enzymes.
(14) Malic enzyme and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were highly active in the adipose tissue of mammals but were inactive in the adipose tissue of birds.
(15) Distribution of kinase activity in centrifugal fractions of both liver and heart mitochondrial sonicates was parallel to that of the two inner membrane marker enzymes succinic dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase and quite different from that of the matrix enzyme malic dehydrogenase.
(16) Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase and malic enzyme are enzymes involved in NADPH synthesis.
(17) The antigenic enzymes, the precipitates of which are only stained by specific staining, are: aldolase, malic enzyme, acid phosphatase, peroxydase and cholinesterase.
(18) The coupling enzymes, fumarase (fumarate to L-malate) and malic enzyme (L-malate to pyruvate and NADPH), are adsorbed to nitrocellulose prior to blotting.
(19) The latter region apparently includes the malic dehydrogenase-1 gene.
(20) Some reactions, such as malic enzyme and glutamate dehydrogenase, may be inhibited or deleted with little or no adverse effect on the calculated cell growth rate.