fraudulently
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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He has filed a separate lawsuit in Greenbrier County, where he lives, arguing that the Rowlings fraudulently obtained confidential financial information during a 2024 visit and should never have been allowed to acquire the debt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
A woman in North Dakota was found to have fraudulently received $128,601 in SSI payments — but that figure was collected over 10 years, averaging fraud of $12,860 a year.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
“Violetta Mailyan falsely diagnosed patients, fraudulently billed for Botox injections while she was actually on lavish vacations and tried to trick federal agents with fake records,” Assistant Atty.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
The court decided she earned the sum of £51,397.58 fraudulently when she claimed to be a band seven nurse but was only qualified to be band five.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
What is more obvious than that the words at some very remote period should have been fraudulently removed from certain copies of the Gospel?
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
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