All 4 Uses of
fraudulent
in
Oliver Twist
- 'Simply, the discovery of Oliver's parentage, and regaining for him the inheritance of which, if this story be true, he has been fraudulently deprived.'†
Chpt 41
- But I warn you, by all I hold most solemn and most sacred, that instant will have you apprehended on a charge of fraud and robbery.†
Chpt 49 *
- Fraud and robbery are high-sounding words—justified, you think, by a fancied resemblance in some young imp to an idle daub of a dead man's Brother!†
Chpt 49
- Monks, still bearing that assumed name, retired with his portion to a distant part of the New World; where, having quickly squandered it, he once more fell into his old courses, and, after undergoing a long confinement for some fresh act of fraud and knavery, at length sunk under an attack of his old disorder, and died in prison.†
Chpt 53
Definition:
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(fraudulent) dishonesty -- usually for financial gain or ego