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dealing, cozenage, Law. barratry, Canon. Law. obrep-tion, Scots. Law. subreption, Archaic, covin; chicanery, knavery, Inf. hanky-panky, Sl. monkey business, Sl. funny business; imposture, imposition, humbug, Inf. flimflam.
2. wile, ruse, sham, shuck, trick, deception, hoax, subterfuge, artifice, stratagem, Sl. scam, Scot. brogue; cheat, swindle, Sl. gyp, Inf. rip-off; dirty deal, dirty trick.
3. impostor, pretender, masquerader, mountebank, quack, charlatan, fake, Inf. phony; bluff, bluffer, Inf. fourflusher; cheat, cheater, swindler, confidence man, Sl. con man, Inf. flimflammer, Sl. flimflam man; trickster, inveigler, bamboozler, dissembler.

fraudulent, adj. 1. dishonest, crooked, criminal; treacherous, false, falsehearted, two-faced; deceitful, guileful, insidious, sharp, shifty, tricky, Inf. shady; dishonorable, unscrupulous, unprincipled.
2. fake, bogus, pinchbeck, spurious, counterfeit, un-genuine, unauthentic, Inf. phony.

fraught, adj. full of, pregnant with, replete with, abounding in, teeming with, Inf. chock-full of, Inf. jam-packed with; involving, attended with, accompanied by.

fray¹, n. fight, brawl, wrangle, tussle, scuffle, melee, Inf set-to, Sl. milling; quarrel, row, argument, dispute, squabble, altercation; fracas, rumpus, Inf ruckus, disturbance, breach of the peace; conflict, clash, struggle, strife, battle, action; encounter, brush, skirmish.

fray², v. 1. ravel, unravel, unweave, shred, wear to shreds, wear to pieces, tatter, Inf. frazzle; abrade, rub, chafe, fret, erode; wear, wear down or away, wear out, waste away.
2. decompose, discompose, abash, disconcert, discomfit, ruffle, fluster, unnerve; agitate, shake, unsettle; addle, muddle, confuse, bewilder, nonplus, perplex; trouble, perturb, upset, disturb, bother; annoy, irritate, rankle, exasperate, aggravate, rub the wrong way; vex, irk, peeve, gall, nettle, tease; strain, overwear, tax, overtax, burden, overburden, overload, overtask, overwork; fatigue, Obs. fatigate, tire, weary, overweary.
-n. 3. erosion, fret, Inf. frazzle; rub, abrasion, scrape, graze, scratch, scuff.

frazzle, n. 1. Informal, exhaustion, enervation, debilitation, prostration, incapacitation, collapse.
2. remnant, shred, tatter, tag end, rag.

freak, n. 1. caprice, capricious notion, whim, vagary; crotchet, quip, quirk, kink, maggot; eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, peculiarity; humor, fancy, whimsy, whimsicality, capriccio; fad, fantasy, craze; turn, twist.
2. aberration, anomaly, abnormality, irregularity; curiosity, oddity, rara avis; monster, monstrosity, mis-creation, Biol, teratism, malformation; abortion, mutant, deformity, freak of nature, lusus naturae; hermaphrodite, two-headed person.
3. chimera, cockatrice, kraken, dragon, Heraldry. wyvern, Arabian Myth, roc; Cyclops, mermaid, sagit-tary, ogre; All Class. Myth, hydra, hippocampus, basilisk, griffin, centaur, Harpy, Minotaur.
4. Sl. enthusiast, fan, devotee, Inf. buff, Sl. nut; addict, drug addict, hippie, Sl. head, Sl. acid-head, Sl. pillhead, Sl. dopenik, Sl. doper. See - addict.

freakish, adj. 1. capricious, whimsical, notional, Archaic, maggoty; quixotic, erratic, wayward, fitful; fanciful, humorsome, crotchety; outlandish, queer.
2. freaky, grotesque, monstrous, bizarre; abnormal, unnatural, aberrant, anomalous, incongruous, preternatural, exceptional, peculiar; fantastic, strange, wild.