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fraudulence
fraud·u·lent F0302100 (frô′jə-lənt)adj.1. Engaging in fraud; deceitful.2. Characterized by, constituting, or gained by fraud: fraudulent business practices.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fraudulentus, from fraus, fraud-, deceit.]
fraud′u·lence n.fraud′u·lent·ly adv.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | fraudulence - a fraudulent or duplicitous representationduplicitydeception, misrepresentation, deceit - a misleading falsehood | | 2. |  fraudulence - the quality of being fraudulent deceitdishonesty - the quality of being dishonest | | 3. | fraudulence - something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantagedupery, hoax, put-on, humbug, fraudchicanery, wile, shenanigan, trickery, guile, chicane - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)goldbrick - anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless |
Translationsfraud (froːd) noun1. (an act of) dishonesty. He was sent to prison for fraud. 欺騙 欺骗2. a person who pretends to be something that he isn't. That man is not a famous writer, he's a fraud. 騙子 骗子ˈfraudulent (-djulənt) , ((American) -dʒulənt) adjective dishonest or intending to deceive. fraudulent behaviour. 欺騙性的 欺骗性的ˈfraudulently adverb 欺騙性地 欺骗性地ˈfraudulence noun 欺騙性 欺骗性Fraudulence
FraudulenceSee also Forgery, Hoax.Cagliostrolecherous peasant posing as count. [Ital. Hist.: Espy, 335]Confidence Man, thean imposter who gulls passengers on a Mississippi steamboat. [Am. Lit.: Melville The Confidence Man in Magill III, 221]Duke and the King, thea pair of charlatans exposed by Huckleberry Finn. [Am. Lit.: Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn]Gantry, Elmerpersonifies hypocrisy and corruption in America’s religious practices. [Am. Lit.: Elmer Gantry]Inspector General, Thepretending to be a government inspector, Khlestakov takes bribes and woos the mayor’s wife and daughter. [Russ. Lit.: The Inspector General]Krull, Felixlives a double life, passing himself off under various identities. [Ger. Lit.: Mann The Confessions of Felix Krull in Magill III, 218]Medium, TheMenotti opera about a fraudulent medium haunted by her own hoax. [Am. Opera: Benét, 653]Mississippi Bubble, theland speculation scam; ultimately back-fired on creators. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 326]Pathelin, Mastersmall-town lawyer cheats his draper, who cheats a shepherd, who hires Pathelin and then cheats him out of his fee. [Fr. Drama: Haydn & Fuller, 466]Peters, Jeffmade a career out of schemes for bamboozling the public. [Am. Lit.: O. Henry “The Gentle Grafter”]Sabbatai Zevifalse messiah, head of Kabbalic movement in mid-1600s. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 544]Schicchi, Giannieffects a fraudulent will on the pretence that he is the testator. [Ital. Hist. and Opera: Gianni Schicchi in Collier’s]Sludge, Mr.medium pretends to greater powers and deceives many people. [Br. Lit.: Browning Dramatis Personae in Magill IV, 250]Tchitchikovattempts to make a fortune by buying up land-lords’ titles to dead serfs in order to mortgage them for capital. [Russ. Lit.: Gogol Dead Souls]Tichbornecase false claimant to the Tichborne baronetcy sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 898]wooden nickelcheap counterfeits circulating in 1850s America. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1164]wooden nutmegsold by dishonest Connecticut peddlers as real thing. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1164]LegalSeeFraudulentFinancialSeefraudfraudulence
Synonyms for fraudulencenoun a fraudulent or duplicitous representationSynonymsRelated Words- deception
- misrepresentation
- deceit
noun the quality of being fraudulentSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun something intended to deceiveSynonyms- dupery
- hoax
- put-on
- humbug
- fraud
Related Words- chicanery
- wile
- shenanigan
- trickery
- guile
- chicane
- goldbrick
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