fraudulent

Speech parts

1. fraudulent - Adjective

2. fraudulent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.

Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain.

Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest.

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Examples

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. Livy

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market. Murray Rothbard

Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted. Che Guevara

There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years. Doug Stanhope

These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities. John Shadegg

The potential for self-loathing comes from the unavoidable problem that one is engaging in a childish, fraudulent activity: although it has the capacity to delight and amaze, the performer is also a hair's breadth from being justifiably treated like a silly child. It is, after all, just tricks. Derren Brown

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