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Definition
intentional deception — usually for financial gain or ego- She stole money by filing a fraudulent insurance claim.
fraudulent = intended to deceive
- She was convicted of a fraudulent home loan scheme.
- She is a fraud.
- a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes
- His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.Shakespeare -- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- the fraudulent conduct of a false friendCharles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- You're a fraud, that's what you are!Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- It is because your husband is himself fraudulent and dishonest that we pair so well together.Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband
- —and very convenient, too, for a fraud that's got to make signs, and ain't learnt how.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Preacher be hanged, he's a fraud and a liar.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- It is fraud, you know it is fraud!Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- It is fraud, you know it is fraud!Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- You must tell them it is a fraud.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- Proctor, respected and even feared in Salem, has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- As though she had denied this he calls angrily at her: Let Rebecca go like a saint; for me it is fraud! Voices are heard in the hall, speaking together in suppressed excitement.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- But it warn't no use; he stormed right along, and said any man that pretended to be an Englishman and couldn't imitate the lingo no better than what he did was a fraud and a liar.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- It is a fraud.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud—God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- I think it is not easy to prove she's fraud, and the town gone so silly.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
fraudulent = intended to deceive
fraud = someone who deceives others
fraudulent = intentionally dishonest to trick people
fraud = someone who deceives others