Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Engaging in fraud; deceitful.
- adjective Characterized by, constituting, or gained by fraud.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Involving or characterized by fraud; proceeding from or founded on fraud; deceitful: as, a fraudulent bargain.
- Planning or using fraud; given to the practice of fraud.
- Synonyms Deceitful, etc. (see
deceptive ); dishonest, designing, unfair, knavish, guileful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Using fraud; tricky; deceitful; dishonest.
- adjective Characterized by, founded on, or proceeding from, fraud.
- adjective Obtained or performed by artifice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
dishonest ; based onfraud ordeception - adjective
false ;phony
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective intended to deceive
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sheehan said the term fraudulent conveyance is a technical one used when a person filing bankruptcy tries to hide assets that could be used to pay creditors.
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About 10,000 protesters, mostly students, held a protest in Chisinau on Monday again what they called fraudulent elections.
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Crowds fill the streets, protesting what they call a fraudulent election.
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The federal regulators said the company engaged in what it called fraudulent accounting practices from 2002 to 2007, including improper use of "bill-and-hold" accounting; improper recognition of revenue on a lease agreement subject to an undisclosed buy-back agreement; manipulating reserves and accruals; improperly delaying and capitalizing expenses, and improperly writing up the value of used inventory.
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Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims. snip several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as
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But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.
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Since disputed elections on June 12, Iran has been thrown into a political crisis as protesters - who at their peak numbered hundreds of thousands in the weeks after the vote - took to the streets to challenge what they called the fraudulent reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Across the street, protesters denounced what they called a fraudulent vote and urged a boycott.
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But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.
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But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.
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