Betrug — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deceit noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
- deception noun An action or scheme designed to make someone believe something untrue.
- fraud noun The crime of deceiving someone to gain money or an unfair advantage.
- guile noun Clever, often sly or dishonest, cunning used to deceive or manipulate.
- humbug noun Nonsense, deception, or something meant to trick or mislead people.
- scam noun A dishonest scheme designed to trick people out of money.
- sham adjective Fake or intended to deceive; not genuine.
Senses
Betrug is used for these senses in English:
- deceit An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- deceit (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- deception An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
- fraud Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
- guile Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- humbug (countable, slang) A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
- rip-off (countable) A bad deal; an unfair or exorbitant price or rate.
- scam A fraudulent deal.
deceit — full definition
- noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
- noun In law, a false statement made knowingly or recklessly to trick someone into relying on it, causing them harm.