In retrospect, I should have known that it was a scam.
Source: tatoeba (953970)
Scam
//skæm//
Synonyms for "scam" (105 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
123 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- اِحْتِيَال noun (fraudulent deal)
- اِحْتَالَ verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- atmaq verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Bengali
1 entries- ছলনা noun (fraudulent deal)
Bulgarian
3 entries- изма́ма noun (fraudulent deal)
- нечестна сделка noun (fraudulent deal)
- мамя verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Catalan
3 entries- enredada noun (fraudulent deal)
- estafa noun (fraudulent deal)
- estafar verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 詭計 /诡计 noun (fraudulent deal)
- 騙局 /骗局 noun (fraudulent deal)
- 欺詐 /欺诈 verb (to defraud or embezzle)
- 詐騙 /诈骗 verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Czech
1 entries- podvod noun (fraudulent deal)
Danish
1 entries- bedrageri noun (fraudulent deal)
Dutch
4 entries- bedrog noun (fraudulent deal)
- deceptie noun (fraudulent deal)
- misleiding noun (fraudulent deal)
- oplichting noun (fraudulent deal)
Esperanto
3 entries- friponaĵo noun (fraudulent deal)
- trompo noun (fraudulent deal)
- prifriponi verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Finnish
4 entries- huijaus noun (fraudulent deal)
- vedätys noun (fraudulent deal)
- vilunki noun (fraudulent deal)
- huijata verb (to defraud or embezzle)
French
4 entries- arnaque noun (fraudulent deal)
- entourloupe noun (fraudulent deal)
- escroquerie noun (fraudulent deal)
- tour de passe-passe noun (fraudulent deal)
Galician
1 entries- calote noun (fraudulent deal)
German
4 entries- Beschiss noun (fraudulent deal)
- Betrug noun (fraudulent deal)
- Gaunerei noun (fraudulent deal)
- Schwindel noun (fraudulent deal)
Greek
2 entries- απάτη noun (fraudulent deal)
- κομπίνα noun (fraudulent deal)
Hebrew
4 entries- הונאה noun (fraudulent deal)
- תרגיל עוקץ noun (fraudulent deal)
- תרמית noun (fraudulent deal)
- הונה verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Ido
1 entries- eskroko noun (fraudulent deal)
Indonesian
1 entries- scam noun (fraudulent deal)
Italian
4 entries- bidonata noun (fraudulent deal)
- bidone noun (fraudulent deal)
- fregatura noun (fraudulent deal)
- frode noun (fraudulent deal)
Japanese
1 entries- 詐欺 noun (fraudulent deal)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- kanbalaxu noun (fraudulent deal)
Khmer
4 entries- ការបោកប្រាស់ noun (fraudulent deal)
- គ្រោងការក្បត់ noun (fraudulent deal)
- ឆីឆ verb (to defraud or embezzle)
- បោកប្រាស់ verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Macedonian
4 entries- дала́вера noun (fraudulent deal)
- ду́бара noun (fraudulent deal)
- и́змама noun (fraudulent deal)
- и́змами verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bedrageri noun (fraudulent deal)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schwindel noun (fraudulent deal)
Polish
3 entries- oszustwo noun (fraudulent deal)
- przekręt noun (fraudulent deal)
- szwindel noun (fraudulent deal)
Portuguese
4 entries- calote noun (fraudulent deal)
- embrulhada noun (fraudulent deal)
- falcatrua noun (fraudulent deal)
- fraude noun (fraudulent deal)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਸਕੈਮ noun (fraudulent deal)
Russian
4 entries- афе́ра noun (fraudulent deal)
- жу́льничество noun (fraudulent deal)
- моше́нничество noun (fraudulent deal)
- надува́тельство noun (fraudulent deal)
Spanish
4 entries- chanchullo noun (fraudulent deal)
- estafa noun (fraudulent deal)
- petardo noun (fraudulent deal)
- pufo noun (fraudulent deal)
Swedish
4 entries- bedrägeri noun (fraudulent deal)
- lurendrejeri noun (fraudulent deal)
- lura verb (to defraud or embezzle)
- scama verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Turkish
2 entries- dolandırma noun (fraudulent deal)
- dolandırmak verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Vietnamese
2 entries- trò lừa đảo noun (fraudulent deal)
- lừa đảo verb (to defraud or embezzle)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
It never occurred to me that the whole thing might be a scam.
Source: tatoeba (1104740)
He took part in a big scam.
Source: tatoeba (1154157)
YouTube is a scam site.
Source: tatoeba (1599566)
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