Wrong and Fraud

noun

• That which is contrary to the principles of justice or law.
  • usage: "he feels that you are in the wrong"
  • synonyms: wrongfulness
• Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right.
  • synonyms: legal injury, damage

verb

• Treat unjustly; do wrong to.

adjective

• Not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth.
  • usage: "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"
  • synonyms: incorrect
• Contrary to conscience or morality or law.
  • usage: "it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is wrong"; "it is wrong to lie"
• Not appropriate for a purpose or occasion.
  • usage: "said all the wrong things"
  • synonyms: improper
• Not functioning properly.
  • usage: "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
  • synonyms: amiss, awry, haywire
• Based on or acting or judging in error.
  • usage: "it is wrong to think that way"
• Not in accord with established usage or procedure.
  • usage: "the wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"; "it is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts"
  • synonyms: incorrect
• Used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward.
  • usage: "socks worn wrong side out"
• Badly timed.
  • usage: "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke"
  • synonyms: ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely
• Characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules.
  • usage: "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"
  • synonyms: faulty, incorrect

adverb

• In an inaccurate manner.
  • usage: "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong"
  • synonyms: incorrectly, wrongly

• (a.) Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way.
• (a.) Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
• (a.) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right.
• (adv.) In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.
• (a.) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong.
• (a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.
• (v.t.) To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.
• (v.t.) To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.
• (a.) That which is not right.
• (a.) Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.
• (a.) Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.
• imp. of Wring. Wrung.
• (a.) Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose.

noun

• Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
• A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
  • synonyms: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
• Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage.
  • synonyms: fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on

• (n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
• (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.) A trap or snare.

Any form of deceit, trickery, breach of confidence or misrepresentation by which one party attempts to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage over another. Unlike negligence,' fraud' is a deceitful practice or material misstatement of a material fact, known to be false, and done with intent to deceive, or with reckless indifference as to its truth, and relied on by the injured party to his or her damage.