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
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
For that reason, the lasting impression of this one-sided championship game should not include any accusations of TCU fraudulence.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 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
By this time Jessie had been so convinced of the wicked and profane fraudulence of all these proceedings that she furtively withdrew one of her hands, and thus cut off the electric fluid altogether.
From Across the Stream by Edward Frederic Benson
