Etymologies
- Derived from fraud + -ster. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thanks to our wonderful European Union open borders, any rapist, armed robber, child-trafficker, drug dealer or fraudster from a member state can walk right in.”
“Rather, the entire story of the missing insurance fraudster is seemingly a red herring, an excuse to tell a story about Bellamy and his compulsive work ethic, his off-handed destructiveness toward the people in his life and his seeming cluelessness about himself.”
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“After all, any money they might lose to a fraudster is money THEY have to swallow themselves.”
“As for the British memo description of Chalabi as a "fraudster" -- a reference to his 1991 conviction in absentia for bank fraud in Jordan -- Markham said his client vigorously denies the charges and has filed a lawsuit in the United States that will ultimately show "the whole thing was a sham.”
“Menashe, whom he has previously labelled a fraudster, must provide documentary evidence that his firm is not bogus.”
“The fraudster could be a third party, an employee, a competitor or even a supplier.”
“You're not trying to suggest that this James Frey is some kind of fraudster hack writer, are you?”
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“The defense has sought to portray him as a "fraudster" who lured down-and-out dupes into a phony scheme by offering them a pile of cash.”
“- With every purchase that a Blippy user makes automatically featured on their accounts, based on the service/credit cards linked to it, this event presents a window of opportunity for the fraudster which is now aware what you've just purchased, from which company and the exact amount of the purchase.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fraudster’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 213 more...
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POL - elections
announcement of c..., campaign headquar..., campaign season, campaign staff, campaign strategy, campaign tactic, campaign team, campaign trail, campaigning, candidate, candidate registr..., caucus and 930 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Steroids
Nouns that end in "ster". The -er suffix (as in blaster) doesn't count.
hamster, filibuster, aster, master, mister, baluster, banister, barrister, monster, plaster, semester, bister and 56 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Rillons of Random Palavery
A list for terms and phrases that I haven't (yet) entered into themed lists, including my series of various 151-word Random Palavery lists. Constructions that catch my eye, ring in my ears, tease m...
ridge cucumber, co-CEO, debt worry, jackalope bustiere, gimblette, ring-biscuit, cobnut, poussoir, praire, coque rayée, rigadelle, coing and 1459 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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The Grifters
You're on the grift, same as me.
cheater, cheat, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, swindler, faker, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, fraudster, hustler and 81 more...
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EditorMark "Fraudster planned to use his own chips in casino."
-- May 26, 2010 Reuters headline.
OED's earliest reference is 1975 and all three of its examples are English press. M-W Unabridged suggests word is "chiefly British." May 27, 2010
chained_bear "But London is corrosive to deference. Who you are is less important than what you seem, a fraudster of no family can impose himself on a gentleman from an ancient line simply by being better dressed and having a winning manner."
—Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 314 Oct 16, 2008