Thesaurus:fraudster
English
Noun
Sense: one who steals or otherwise illegally obtains money by use of deception
Synonyms
- bunco-steerer (US slang)
- charlatan
- cheat
- cheater
- chiseler
- cozener
- defrauder
- finagler
- fleecer
- fraud
- fraudmeister
- fraudster
- humbug (slang)
- goldbrick (dated, US slang)
- grifter
- gull (obsolete, British slang)
- gyp (racist)
- landshark (obsolete, slang)
- pickpenny
- rook
- scammer
- scamp
- Scandaroon (obsolete)
- schemester
- sharper
- slicker
- spieler
- swindler
- trapan (archaic or obsolete)
- trepan (archaic or obsolete)
Hyponyms
- click farmer
- confidence trickster [⇒ thesaurus]
- cyberfraudster
- e-fraudster
- four-flusher (US & Canada, slang)
- gypster (racist)
- hustler
- impostor
- sandbagger
- thimblerigger
- three-card trickster
Hypernyms
Holonyms
- swell mob (archaic)