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guild, clan, league, club, union, society, association: She has
joined the fraternity of legal clerks.
fraternize
v. consort (with), associate (with), socialize (with), go
(around or round) with or together, spend time with or together,
keep company (with), hobnob with, mingle (with), mix (with),
take up with or together, keep up (with), fall in with, rub
shoulders (with), Colloq hang out (with or together), hang about
or around with or together: Soldiers are forbidden to
fraternize, which means they are not allowed to fraternize with
local people.
fraud n. 1 deception, trickery, cheating, sharp practice, chicanery,
deceit, swindling, double-dealing, duplicity, artifice, craft,
guile, humbug, humbuggery, treachery, Colloq monkey business,
funny business, hanky-panky: The company directors have been
convicted of fraud. 2 trick, hoax, swindle, deception, cheat,
wile, stratagem, dodge, bilk, ruse, sham, fake, subterfuge,
Colloq flimflam, Slang gyp, rip-off, scam: The investigation
exposed extensive fraud in the handling of local government
funds. 3 deceiver, trickster, cheat(er), impostor, swindler,
charlatan, humbug, sharper, shark, bilk(er), quack, mountebank,
fake(r), pretender, bluff(er), confidence man, inveigler,
defrauder; scoundrel, rogue, Archaic knave; Colloq con man or
artist, phoney or US also phony, flimflam artist, flimflammer,
US and Canadian four-flusher; Slang US barracuda: He is a fraud
who extracts protection money from the elderly.
fraudulent
n. 1 fake, counterfeit, forged, false, falsified, spurious,
imitation, sham, pinchbeck, Colloq phoney or US also phony:
These banknotes are fraudulent. 2 deceitful, dishonest,
criminal, deceptive, tricky, artful, crafty, double-dealing,
duplicitous, shifty, guileful, sharp, Colloq shady, crooked,
bent: Substituting paste for diamonds is a fraudulent act.
fraught adj. 1 Usually, fraught with. filled or charged or packed with,
loaded with, teeming or replete or overflowing with,
oversupplied with, abounding or abundant in, attended or
accompanied by: The scene was fraught with emotion. 2 tense,
taut, stressful, trying, anxious, distressing, distressful,
upsetting, nerve-racking or nerve-wracking, fretful, strained,