fraudulent
adjective
characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains.
fraudulence
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a word derived from
fraudulent.
Example Sentences
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A thread of fraudulence enters Mr. Gutjahr’s story with the self-help fatuities of Helena Blavatsky and L. Ron Hubbard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
You might know him from the OC, but Ben McKenzie wrote the book—and directed the documentary—on cryptocurrency’s core fraudulence.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
Coaches and athletes can smell even the faintest whiff of fraudulence.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2022
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
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 Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer
