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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

  1. noun The act of deliberately misleading someone; a trick or lie meant to fool someone.
  2. noun In law, a false statement made knowingly or recklessly to trick someone into relying on it, causing them harm.
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