Wrongdoing and Fraud

noun

• Departure from what is ethically acceptable.
  • synonyms: error
• Activity that transgresses moral or civil law.
  • usage: "he denied any wrongdoing"
  • synonyms: wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus

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.