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rogue (rōg)
n.

1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.
3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
4. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
5. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.

adj.

1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.
3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: "How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?" (Saul Hansell).

v., rogued, rogu·ing, rogues. v.tr.

1. To defraud.
2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.

v.intr.
To remove diseased or abnormal plants.

[Origin unknown.] 此字英國中世紀起即有

[動](他)〈人を〉だまして（物を）奪う, 取る((of ...)).

fraud

In law, the deliberate misrepresentation of fact for the purpose of depriving someone of a valuable possession or legal right. Any omission or concealment that is injurious to another or that allows a person to take unconscionable advantage of another may constitute criminal fraud. The most common type of fraud is the obtaining of property by giving a check for which there are insufficient funds in the signer's account. Another is the assumption of someone else's or a fictitious identity with the intent to deceive. Also important are mail and wire fraud (fraud committed by use of the postal service or electronic devices, such as telephones or computers). A tort action based on fraud is sometimes referred to as an action of deceit.

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Honest services fraud refers to a 28-word sentence of 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988, which states: "For the purposes of this chapter, the term scheme or artifice to defraud includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right ...

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defraud

(dĭ-frôd')
tr.v., -fraud·ed, -fraud·ing, -frauds.
To take something from by fraud; swindle: defrauded the immigrants by selling them worthless land deeds.

[Middle English defrauden, from Old French defrauder, from Latin dēfraudāre : dē-, de- + fraudāre, to cheat (from fraus, fraud-, fraud).]

defraudation de'fraud·a'tion (dē'frô-dā'shən) n.
defrauder de·fraud'er n.scion
(sī'ən)
n.

1. A descendant or heir.
2. also ci·on (sī'ən) A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.

[Middle English, from Old French cion, possibly of Germanic origin.]

  unconscionable

 (ŭn-kŏn'shə-nə-bəl)
adj.

1. Not restrained by conscience; unscrupulous: unconscionable behavior.
2. Beyond prudence or reason; excessive: unconscionable spending.

ʌnˈkɒnʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l/

adjective

1. not right or reasonable.

   "the unconscionable conduct of his son"

   
   

   • unreasonably excessive.

     "shareholders have had to wait an unconscionable time for the facts to be established"

unconscionableness un·con'scion·a·ble·ness n.
unconscionably un·con'scion·a·bly adv.