(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.
Treachery
Definition:
(n.) Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.
Example Sentences:
(1) All potential treacheries must be assessed by each elderly traveler.
(2) ‘Patriotism’ is a difficult concept to pin, and one man’s patriotism can easily be misjudged as folly or even treachery if we start judging based on a narrow understanding of the term.” Walid, a Muslim veteran of the navy, added that “even though we invaded Iraq based upon bogus information, that doesn’t diminish the sacrifice of Captain Khan and other American service members who lost their lives”.
(3) He has been accused by the Eurosceptic press of treachery, a vanishing act and a euro sulk.
(4) 2.31am BST Turnbull hurled his observation that the Bloguer Bolter, (with his treachery theory), was losing a certain amount of .. shall we say .. grip .. while attending Stay Smart Online week.
(5) Not only did he miss a sitter in a defeat that meant an early exit for Spain, he was also booed throughout by Brazilian fans who cannot forgive his “treachery”.
(6) Earlier in the day a last-ditch effort by the junta to stem the violence by offering concessions to their critics – including the passing of a long-awaited "treachery law" that would bar former members of Hosni Mubarak's now-disbanded ruling party from running in the upcoming elections, which are now less than a week away – appeared only to galvanise resistance.
(7) And a febrile media culture has developed that rewards treachery.
(8) of Jürgen Klopp's side have taken to the attacking midfielder's Facebook page to accuse him of treachery, which is less than ideal preparation ahead of Dortmund's semi-final first leg against Real Madrid tomorrow night, arguably the biggest fixture in the German club's history.
(9) "This is rank treachery," Zuckerman replied angrily, while Mountbatten later reported the conversation to the Queen.
(10) Zardari's government was accused of treachery over the proposal, which was made in a memo delivered to the US military chief, Admiral Mike Mullen.
(11) It had been "hard to withstand tribalism", he said, but insisted that working in partnership during a period of crisis was not treachery but "progress".
(12) The state news agency KCNA runs a curious combination of brief news items such as its coverage of Clinton's visit, angry denunciations of the treachery of "puppet authorities" in South Korea and long tales of the leadership's care for ordinary people.
(13) Former Wallabies player Bill Calcraft eyes Bronwyn Bishop’s Sydney seat Read more Bishop’s office has been inundated with calls complaining of her “treachery”, to the point where her staffers turned off the phones.
(14) He sold off natural resources "at random" and committed treachery by selling off land at the Rason special economic zone for five decades, it added, apparently in reference to a deal with Russia.
(15) Although I will admit that the fact he preceded this terrible announcement about the treachery of his homeland with a tweet to Ping Pong saying how much he is "looking forward to seeing my fluffy sweet parrot soon!
(16) But distrust is equally growing in America, where, in the aftermath of the Bin Laden raid, Pakistan has become a byword for treachery and clumsy deception – even on the comedy stations.
(17) The pressure against such "treachery" will be intense – there are parallels here with the crisis Papandreou's grandfather faced as prime minister in 1965.
(18) On the one hand, Breivik indicts feminism with causing our alleged "cultural suicide", both by encouraging reproductive treachery and also because women are apparently more supportive of multiculturalism.
(19) Ahmed is now between Allah's hands and Allah is a thousand times more powerful than the west.” But there is bitterness too over suspicions, widely shared in militant circles here, of treachery and the belief that fellow Libyans collaborated with US forces to lure Abu Khattala to the outskirts of Benghazi, where he was apparently bundled into a car and driven to a waiting helicopter.
(20) When the ISI discovered this "act of treachery", Haqqani, instead of saying that he was acting under orders from Zardari, denied the entire story.