About The Word Fraudulent
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Fraudulent
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What's The Definition Of Fraudulent?
[adj] intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Fraudulent: deceitful | dishonest | dishonorable | fallacious Related Terms | Find terms related to Fraudulent: amoral | artful | bent | brigandish | burglarious | calculating | chiseling | collusive | conscienceless | corrupt | corrupted | counterfeit | covinous | crafty | criminal | crooked | cunning | dark | deceitful | deceptive | devious | dishonest | dishonorable | double-dealing | doubtful | dubious | duplicitous | evasive | fake | false | falsehearted | falsified | felonious | finagling | fishy | forged | furtive | guileful | ill-got | ill-gotten | imitation | immoral | indirect | insidious | kleptomaniac | larcenous | light-fingered | not kosher | pinchbeck | piratelike | piratic | questionable | rotten | scheming | shady | sham | shameless | sharp | shifty | sinister | slippery | sneaky | spurious | sticky-fingered | surreptitious | suspicious | thieving | thievish | treacherous | trickish | tricky | two-faced | unconscienced | unconscientious | unconscionable | underhand | underhanded | unethical | unprincipled | unsavory | unscrupulous | unstraightforward | wily | without remorse | without shame See Also | Fraudulent In Webster's Dictionary \Fraud"u*lent\, a. [L. fraudulentus, fr. fraus,
fraudis, frand: cf. F. fraudulent.]
1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.
2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund;
as, a fraudulent bargain.
He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent
temptation thus began. --Milton.
3. Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent
conquest. --Milton.
Syn: Deceitful; fraudful; guileful; crafty; wily; cunning;
subtle; deceiving; cheating; deceptive; insidious;
treacherous; dishonest; designing; unfair.
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