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fraudmeister

noun

Etymology

From fraud + -meister.

  1. derived from fraus — “deceit, injury, offence”
  2. derived from fraude
  3. inherited from fraude
  4. suffixed as fraudmeister — “fraud + meister”

Definitions

  1. A person who commits fraud for profit.

    • This Canadian fraudmeister moved to Europe after being nabbed in a mining-stock scam in Ontario.
    • It was quite forgotten by the candidates and the press that the energy crisis was caused by deregulation and the leasing of the state's electricity to Enron and other now-convicted Texas fraudmeisters, […]
    • Today, we are dealing with a new breed of potentially dangerous pests: the television and Web fraudmeisters who flog 'herbal remedies' and alternative medicines as cure-alls for almost every disease known to humankind.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA