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WeWork was different, perhaps because Neumann’s fraudulence wasn’t the criminal kind, just the kind that wholesomely convinced some very rich people to let him light their money on fire.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2023

It’s a little obvious to locate the underlying anxieties of “Last Resort” — fraudulence, vanity — in the well-documented and rapidly growing unwillingness of readers to ascribe credibility to the media.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2022

“There’s a fraudulence to the traditional novel,” Kumar says.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2021

The pleasure of “Malcolm & Marie” lies in similarly glancing but semi-profound revelations, whether they have to do with self-sabotage, fraudulence, the male gaze or creative vampirism.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2021

The author of this latter critique further proves the fraudulence by asserting that allusion is made in the book to “facts and circumstances which did not happen until Yorick was dead.”

From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)