fraud vs shenanigan

shenanigan vs fraud

fraud and shenanigan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fraud	Yes	No	No	No
shenanigan	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, shenanigan is a hypernym of fraud; that is, shenanigan is a word with a broader meaning than fraud:

fraud: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
shenanigan: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Other hypernyms of fraud include chicane, chicanery, guile, trickery, wile.

fraud (noun)	shenanigan (noun)
intentional deception resulting in injury to another person	reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage	the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Difference between fraud and shenanigan

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