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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.

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  1. 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.
  2. n. An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
  3. n. A trap or snare.
  4. n. intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
  5. n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses
  6. n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
  7. n. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
  8. An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtainingsome valuable thing or promise from another.
  9. n:100 n. intentional deception resulting in injury to another person n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage