(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.
Trickery
Definition:
(n.) The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the party was left confused and damaged when the voting booths closed and both camps immediately made accusations of ballot fraud, trickery and irregularities, lodging complaints with the party's internal election monitoring body.
(2) 4.13am GMT 90 mins +3 Neagle tries a little trickery wide right, trying to end his interest in this series with a decisive touch, but his short through ball is overhit.
(3) This parliamentary trickery can be traced to another controversial Westminster moment: the government's determination to introduce 42-day detention.
(4) Md Shamsuddoha, a campaigner with Justice and Equity Bangladesh, said: "Channelling climate funds through the World Bank is a trickery of the British government to weaken the argument for channelling funds through the United Nations or national funds.
(5) Four completions, one spiked football, and then, on first-and-goal at the one-yard line, a wonderful piece of trickery, as he gestured furiously at his team-mates to run to the line for a spike play, but instead leaped over the line for a touchdown.
(6) Holding hands prevents participants from disrupting the trickery.
(7) 2.50am GMT 10 mins First look at Rivero trying a little trickery by the touchline, and then getting caught by Traore as he tries another little flick forward.
(8) But also increasingly we are seeing people with learning disabilities becoming targeted for forced marriage through coercion or trickery in order to extract their finances or accommodation or even for passports or visas.” Forced marriage is a deeply malign cultural practice – but it’s not the only one | Deborah Orr Read more Respond Chief Executive Noelle Blackman worries that the nuance of the cases they see is not allowed for by the new legislation: “The new Health and Care act promotes advocacy for people with learning disabilities, but we are concerned that this is likely to come from generic advocacy agencies without the specialised knowledge that would be needed.” Let’s hope, as Khan does, that this first case to be prosecuted, “will send out a very strong message”.
(9) He added of his rival’s campaign: “They have a long record they’ve earned in South Carolina of engaging in this kind of trickery and impugning the integrity of whoever their opponent is to distract the attention.
(10) It is pushing the campaign off the front of the news locally.” The election has been a long, brutal process and people are much more interested in the World Series John Grabowski, Case Western Reserve University Grabowski cautioned against notions of baseball as morally pure escapism, noting the sport’s own history of “chicanery and trickery”, but added: “Nonetheless it’s linked to what America is supposed to be about – the field of dreams.
(11) Stoke were tormented, unable to match his acceleration and bewitched by his trickery.
(12) It's thinking not dissimilar to one of those terrifying internet male pickup artists – all buzzwords and trickery, although I've never known any of them to follow up their attempts to seduce with a bastardised version of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech ("I want to see a Britain where no matter where you come from, what god you worship, the colour of your skin, what community you belong to, you can get to the top in television, the judiciary, armed services, politics, newspapers.")
(13) Lamela scored three goals in the first half – extending his fine record in this competition – and Tom Carroll’s dogged trickery added a fourth late on‚ his first for the club.
(14) The embarrassed hospital has condemned the hoax as "pretty deplorable" and "journalistic trickery".
(15) O'Neill, who continues to pursue the Wolves centre-forward Steven Fletcher but has accepted that the midfielder or left back Kieran Richardson remains determined to leave the Stadium of Light, is desperate to add "pace and trickery" to his team along with a striker and a left-back.
(16) I can easily generate a Man City fan's revulsion about Sir Alex Ferguson's surly shtick, strategic trickery, his bloody, battering success.
(17) The deja vu will stab at Atlético when they also reflect on Griezmann firing a penalty against the crossbar early in a second half when Yannick Carrasco changed the match with his pace, trickery and directness.
(18) 2.57am GMT 45 mins +2 Luis Gil shows a little trickery in the box down the right again, but Ricketts dives on his ball in towards the near post.
(19) Further down the nave, another marker signals the best vantage point for a second bit of trickery.
(20) True, there was a big warning flashed up over the spending cuts to come, but in general the IFS did not find much evidence of trickery.