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  • Proctor, respected and even feared in Salem, has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud.   (source)
    fraud = a person who is dishonest about who they are
  • The blind specialist gets into a heated argument with the protagonist, who accuses the specialist of fraud, and is accused in turn of being the worst sort of malefactor, one who by the way is blind to what really matters.   (source)
    fraud = intentional deception
  • He was implicated in that share-pushing fraud of Bennito's three years ago—we're sure of that though we can't prove it.   (source)
    fraud = something intended to deceive
  • He had never thought that the dwarves would actually dare to approach Smaug, but believed they were frauds who would sooner or later be discovered and be turned out.   (source)
    frauds = people who are dishonest about who they are
  • They are merely honest and call a thing by its name; for there is a very great deal of fraud, injustice, and baseness in the army.   (source)
    fraud = dishonesty
  • It is because your husband is himself fraudulent and dishonest that we pair so well together.   (source)
    fraudulent = intentionally dishonest to trick people
  • These uncles of yourn ain't no uncles at all; they're a couple of frauds—regular dead-beats.   (source)
    frauds = people who are dishonest about who they are
  • He won't be ruining anything, or nothing that's been bought and paid for: the fraudulent Lord of the Underworld must have been and gone already.†   (source)
  • I even thought of going to Israel to be president, but they changed their minds and said I was nothing but a fraud....†   (source)
  • We had worried that unless I somehow obtained and submitted the financial information of Bob Hamel (my legal father), I'd be guilty of fraud.†   (source)
  • So they bought fraudulent passports and set sail for Sydney, where they landed on July 29, 1949.†   (source)
  • Nobody is saying Christ was a fraud, or denying that He walked the earth and inspired millions to better lives.†   (source)
  • That starts with an F. 'So does fraud,' the prosecutor pointed out.†   (source)
  • The Lake Lachrymose Police Department will be happy to capture a known criminal wanted for fraud, murder, and the endangerment of children.†   (source)
  • Many people from the old organic movement argued that to put synthetics in a processed food and then call it organic was a fraud.†   (source)
  • On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had—he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.†   (source)
  • The responses had been mostly fraudulent, but Ho Chi Minh City had paid off.†   (source)
  • She felt like a fraud.†   (source)
  • "No thanks," I said, conscious of Mrs. Vogel's gaze boring into me, cold fraudulent smile, eyes like agate chips in her smooth, aging-milkmaid face.†   (source)
  • "You miserable little hangdog fraud," I said.†   (source)
  • I was afraid he would turn on me with disgust and accuse me of my fraud, but he still seemed flattered.†   (source)
  • I swear, since seeing Your face, the whole world is fraud and fantasy.†   (source)
  • Davis estimated that Holmes made $200,000 through his drugstore and other business ventures, most of which were fraudulent.†   (source)
  • He has done time for assault with a deadly weapon (1940), carrying a concealed weapon (1948), and conspiracy to commit tax fraud (1961) .†   (source)
  • He'd also been convicted of fraud for a scam in which he got an obituary of himself published, then sued the newspaper for libel and damages up to $100 million.†   (source)
  • "He saved your life," Clary pointed out, feeling like a fraud— after all, Jace had come along to the Dumort only because he'd been worried he'd get in trouble if she got herself killed.†   (source)
  • For credit card fraud.†   (source)
  • There were times when she felt like a fraud when insisting to Kevin that he came first and that family was the most important thing he'd have.†   (source)
  • It was a masterful fraud, for the bills had the watermarks of the original paper: one-dollar bills had been erased by a chemical process that seemed to be magic, and reprinted as hundred-dollar notes.†   (source)
  • He had been promoted and played a key role in the firm's development and was an expert in financial fraud.†   (source)
  • She wouldn't say what was wrong, but Olly had overheard words like "fraud" and "investigation."†   (source)
  • Does this mean that the Pepsi Challenge was a fraud?†   (source)
  • She felt like a fraud.†   (source)
  • He felt like a fraud.†   (source)
  • She's a fraud: the whole world is a fraud, one bright, shiny scam.†   (source)
  • He was arrested on fraud charges and got sentenced to two years.†   (source)
  • The company was forced to pay $17.2 million in damages for the fraud.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, God was the shameless fraud Stone had always found Him to be.†   (source)
  • I had realized that Ambiades was working for someone besides the magus, and he had realized that it would take one fraud to recognize another.†   (source)
  • And now, of course, I feel like a fraud.†   (source)
  • The parents accepted what Nye implied-that parole violation and financial fraud were all that motivated his pursuit of their son.†   (source)
  • I felt like a fraud.†   (source)
  • Then, turning to Milo, he said, "Don't believe a thing this old fraud says."†   (source)
  • But I suppose that's the way with such women: They wouldn't be minxes if they weren't masters of artifice and fraud.†   (source)
  • It made all his trying, his work and discipline, seem fraudulent, and caused him to wonder if his life had made sense at all.†   (source)
  • Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.†   (source)
  • It was insignificant prattle dotted with some harsh words about the occupation regime, but here and there one emigre would call another an imbecile or a fraud.†   (source)
  • That's fraud!'†   (source)
  • "A stinking fraud," Hrothulf said, and bit his lip.†   (source)
  • With great effort the man turned his head upon the pillow and stared at me with so penetrating a look, I was sure he knew me for the fraud I was, and I trembled.†   (source)
  • His collection rate was about 95 percent; he attributed the underpayment to oversight, not fraud.†   (source)
  • Colonel Korn was the lawyer, and if Colonel Korn assured him that fraud, extortion, currency manipulation, embezzlement, income tax evasion and black-market speculations were legal, Colonel Cathcart was in no position to disagree with him.†   (source)
  • Or a dole fraud.†   (source)
  • For Internet auction fraud.†   (source)
  • Ends up he did two years up in Lampoc for securities fraud.†   (source)
  • His second reaction, though, was more restrained—this lawyer was a fraud, a fake.†   (source)
  • Even then, its primary role was to prevent currency fraud, not to protect the president.†   (source)
  • Kurihara's group set up microphones and speakers near the cook's barracks and began a round of crowd-stirring speeches, demanding his release, charging that Tayama and the administration had used this beating to cover up the sugar fraud and saying it was time to get the inus once and for all.†   (source)
  • The contentment of the does spread to everyone else, until one evening Hazel remarked that he felt a perfect fraud as Chief Rabbit, for there were no problems and hardly a dispute to be settled.†   (source)
  • "A fraud!" boomed the Troll Prince Arawn, standing and shaking his armored fist.†   (source)
  • A rinse, I think—" ...officials in the downtown office say as much as $300,000 may have been misdirected by the fraudulent claims.... "—asked her how she stays so thin.†   (source)
  • The IRS'll get him for tax fraud.†   (source)
  • Now I'm saying I can float again, and you have the audacity to call me a fraud.†   (source)
  • When his fraud was discovered, Toby had been forced to reveal his true shape before all assembled and was thereafter banned from changing shape while at Rowan.†   (source)
  • If you refuse to charge me a reasonable price, then I'll have no choice but to report you for fraud.†   (source)
  • He'd skipped town, they'd say, because he was a fraud, a quack whom we never should've trusted.†   (source)
  • The fraudulent flower for Marco.†   (source)
  • I wanted to tell them that Rinehart was a fraud, but now there came a shout from inside the church and I heard a burst of music.†   (source)
  • The numbers of those checks could be punched on a fraud tape and sent to banks everywhere.†   (source)
  • Careful tea parties and the quiet fear that I don't belong, that I'm a fraud?†   (source)
  • Without her, the lords will only mock his claim and brand him a fraud and a pretender.†   (source)
  • It was ruled that the passports obtained for the negroes by Ruiz and Montes were accurately proved to be fraudulent in district court and as such were invalid as proof of ownership.†   (source)
  • I had taken a stand, and I did not want to appear to be a fraud in the eyes of my fellow students.†   (source)
  • Even if I wanted to help the Milago, the second I opened my mouth they'd know I was a fraud.†   (source)
  • It was customary for stewards to allow suspended jockeys to ride in stakes races except in cases of fraud, of which Pollard was not accused, but the Tanforan stewards scheduled a later meeting to consider taking this privilege away from him as well.†   (source)
  • Yet no penny of his wealth had been obtained by force or fraud; he was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo allowed himself to feel a moment of hope and prayed that the Realtor wasn't a fraud.†   (source)
  • These kitchen illustrations demolish the Marxian theory of value — the fallacy from which the entire magnificent fraud of communism derives — and to illustrate the truth of the common-sense definition as measured in terms of use.†   (source)
  • At first I tried to stay on, but I just couldn't handle being part of a fraud.†   (source)
  • I'm a coward and a fraud and I murdered his spirit.†   (source)
  • Years later, when it turned out that he was a fraud, you can imagine what the effect was.†   (source)
  • The loans it could get would be the same that loan sharks commonly lend to bankrupt and fraudulent debtors—very small with an enormous interest rate.†   (source)
  • For in my own way I comprised it, my yearning and wishing and my wanton hope, the sum of which, at end, amounted to a complete and utter fraudulence.†   (source)
  • I am a fraud.†   (source)
  • After all, the two women in Room 822 of the Key Bridge Marriott both held French passports, though both documents were fraudulent.†   (source)
  • From the stairway leading up to the second floor of the house, I heard the sound of mocking, fraudulent applause.†   (source)
  • He is a fraud and I know it.†   (source)
  • It was all such a fraud.†   (source)
  • An 800-year tradition of postal fraud.†   (source)
  • It was generally conceded that he had received enlightenment, except by those who believed him to be a fraud, sinner, criminal or practical joker.†   (source)
  • The cheap fraud—†   (source)
  • You fraud!†   (source)
  • He had said that he found relief in the moral decency, peace, and understanding which he discovered in him and had asked him endless questions about fine points in law concerning bills of exchange, deeds of settlement, bankruptcy, and fraud.†   (source)
  • The whole concept, concoction and passage of the resolutions were perfected by fraud ...a plot to get me out of the Senate and out of the way of the disunion plotters.†   (source)
  • Preacher be hanged, he's a fraud and a liar.   (source)
    fraud = person who is dishonest about who they are
  • —and very convenient, too, for a fraud that's got to make signs, and ain't learnt how.   (source)
  • ...but if THESE two ain't frauds, I am an idiot, that's all.   (source)
    frauds = people who are dishonest about who they are
  • I says to myself, shall I go to that doctor, private, and blow on these frauds?   (source)
  • I see how maybe I could get me and Jim rid of the frauds; get them jailed here, and then leave.   (source)
  • The doctor says: "Neighbors, I don't know whether the new couple is frauds or not;"   (source)
  • If they warn't the beatenest lot, them two frauds, that ever I struck.   (source)
  • So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again.   (source)
  • You're a fraud, that's what you are!   (source)
    fraud = person who is dishonest about who they are
  • 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.   (source)
    fraud = person who is dishonest about who he is
  • And everybody crowded up with the tears in their eyes, and most shook the hands off of them frauds, saying all the time: "You DEAR good souls!"   (source)
    frauds = people who are dishonest about who they are
  • "Well," I says, "it's a rough gang, them two frauds, and I'm fixed so I got to travel with them a while longer, whether I want to or not—"   (source)
  • It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.   (source)
  • So these two frauds said they'd go and fetch it up, and have everything square and above-board; and told me to come with a candle.   (source)
  • If these men ain't frauds, they won't object to sending for that money and letting us keep it till they prove they're all right—ain't that so?   (source)
  • It injured the frauds some; but the old fool he bulled right along, spite of all the duke could say or do, and I tell you the duke was powerful uneasy.   (source)
  • They had the cheek, them frauds!   (source)
  • 'I just think she's an absolutely appalling teacher and a real old fraud.†   (source)
  • Oh Harry, you aren't going to pay attention to anything that old fraud says?†   (source)
  • Victims of an enormous fraud, and at the same time its perpetrators, or so I felt.†   (source)
  • They also think your tipster is a fraud.†   (source)
  • He'd put that on a giveaway calendar once, some fraudulent sex-enhancement product for women.†   (source)
  • "Not James," says the voice, "you old fraud!"†   (source)
  • Together they devised an elaborate life insurance fraud, which Mudgett described in his memoir.†   (source)
  • She obviously reckons Trelawney's an old fraud, too...looks like she's put her on probation.†   (source)
  • Holmes confessed to the fraud and agreed to be extradited to Philadelphia for trial.†   (source)
  • Please banish all thoughts of Mesmerism, and other such fraudulent procedures.†   (source)
  • He had arranged the insurance fraud for the money, but the rest of it was for fun.†   (source)
  • Is he the assassin of Asia or is he a fraud, a plant?†   (source)
  • A fraud and murder investigation into the alleged suicide of a prominent local banker.†   (source)
  • Still another insisted that fraud had been committed.†   (source)
  • Not that Jaime was truly concerned about that fat fraud, or the gods he claimed to serve.†   (source)
  • I am Nephilim, no matter how much I might think the Covenant is useless and the Law fraudulent.†   (source)
  • The one facility he'd always trusted—memory—was a fraud.†   (source)
  • Again and again he said that she must think he was a fraud.†   (source)
  • Sukeena suggests she is "preparing" the room as well, the implication of fraud apparent.†   (source)
  • I'm a special investigator for the Bureau of Taxation and Records, Division of Fraud and Conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Opponents are deliberately using fraud and deception.†   (source)
  • Fifty-four months in federal prison for eBay fraud?†   (source)
  • So at last she gave him the answer he wanted ...Yes, you are a fraud.†   (source)
  • He keeps one eye on the newspaper before his face: Welfare Fraud Investigated.†   (source)
  • He liked Tormund, and the old fraud liked him too.†   (source)
  • Although she's a mess, her instinct for social fraud has sharpened.†   (source)
  • There were charges, as well, of vote fraud and vote rigging.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Worthington has not forgotten Ann's fraud at Christmas while Ann was a guest in their home.†   (source)
  • Not the noble lightning lord or that flaming fraud of a priest, the monster.†   (source)
  • Do you think that a fraud of this kind would be just?†   (source)
  • He didn't want his path to citizenship to be based on fraud.†   (source)
  • A quite clever fraud perpetrated against that widow you represent.†   (source)
  • Convicted of insurance fraud in the seventies.†   (source)
  • My master said you were a sot and a fraud, as bad a priest as there ever was.†   (source)
  • He was serving a two-year sentence for fraud.†   (source)
  • This would encourage election fraud, particularly in the more distant States.†   (source)
  • Payments to so-called suppliers whose invoices are fraudulent.†   (source)
  • Our good hosts, Maskelyne and Cooke, have made it their work to expose the fraudulent among us.†   (source)
  • The most fraudulent part of the fraud was that they meant it.†   (source)
  • I suspected the truth was plain old medical fraud.†   (source)
  • By every standard of mine, to maintain our marriage will be a vicious fraud.†   (source)
  • The fear of being unseated would do little to stop unfair and fraudulent elections.†   (source)
  • With her brothers dead, and both parents, who would dare name this one a fraud?†   (source)
  • "The literature of the past," said Balph Eubank, "was a shallow fraud.†   (source)
  • I am talking about the fraudulent laws that have been passed in many of the States.†   (source)
  • A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.†   (source)
  • Force is all they know, force, fraud and plunder!†   (source)
  • So you tell people that science is a futile fraud which ought to be abolished!†   (source)
  • Are you asking me to help him stage a fraud of that kind?†   (source)
  • Observe the triple fraud which he perpetrates upon himself.†   (source)
  • The most fraudulent part of the fraud was that they meant it.†   (source)
  • When the fraud was discovered, Vasia, who had suspected nothing, burst into tears.†   (source)
  • "Siddhartha," said Yama, "I know that you are a fraud.†   (source)
  • The audience, who paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats.†   (source)
  • I am very well, and making considerable headway here, in my study of nervous and cerebral diseases among the criminal element, which, if the key to them may be found, would go a long way towards alleviating ....He can't go on; he feels too fraudulent.†   (source)
  • Can you blame even such a renowned physicist as Gerald Luponet for claiming the whole thing is a hoax and a fraud, even in the face of such overwhelming evidence as the White Commission presented?†   (source)
  • By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.†   (source)
  • What scenario seems more likely to you-that a four-hundred-year-old satanic cult has resurfaced with an advanced weapon of mass destruction, or that some prankster at CERN is trying to disrupt a sacred Vatican event with a well-executed fraud?†   (source)
  • Having always considered her a bit of a fraud, Harry had been shocked to discover at the end of the previous term that it had been she who had made the prediction that caused Lord Voldemort to kill Harry's parents and attack Harry himself.†   (source)
  • Don Baithazar thought that the venerable Daton was a fraud, that Salmud Brevy and Robert Frost should have hanged themselves with their own entrails, that Wordsworth was a fool, and that anything less than Shakespeare's sonnets was a profanation of the language.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she had nightmares in which Matt realized she was a fraud-that she wasn't beautiful; she wasn't cool; she wasn't anyone worthy of admiration.†   (source)
  • It might not have led to an indictment for fraud—the deal had already been approved by the auditors—but I would have damaged his reputation.†   (source)
  • Back in the States, Timur owns a real-estate mortgage company, and Idris is all but certain that he is waist-deep in some kind of mortgage fraud.†   (source)
  • So it may be that what she runs into in the darkness is the fraudulence of her attempt to "be Indian."†   (source)
  • She too had tried to guess what might put her mother at ease, the words that would placate but not be readily detected as fraudulent.†   (source)
  • On June 10, 1965, its Medical Grievance Committee found Southam and Mandel guilty of "fraud or deceit and unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine" and recommended that their medical licenses be suspended for one year.†   (source)
  • I fear the thing you dread will indeed come to pass...' " But Hermione was right, Harry thought irritably, Professor Trelawney really was an old fraud.†   (source)
  • Prashkin is clean in America, but was indicted in Mexico on fraud charges that were dropped quickly three weeks after they were brought.†   (source)
  • And sometimes —" darting flick of the brush—"the edge between puffery and fraud is very cloudy indeed."†   (source)
  • A part of me had thought I'd finally be revealed as an intellectual fraud, that the administration would realize they'd made a terrible mistake and send me back to Middletown with their sincerest apologies.†   (source)
  • During the second week, when the securities fraud police tried to contact Wennerström, he was nowhere to be found.†   (source)
  • He has been convicted on charges of receiving and concealing stolen property (1958), and conspiracy to commit tax fraud (1954).†   (source)
  • In a scathing five-page document filled with exclamation points, he accused Southam and Mandel of fraud and unprofessional conduct, and demanded that the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York revoke their medical licenses.†   (source)
  • Probably just as well if I admitted, in writing, the furniture fraud, and made it crystal-clear he'd had no knowledge of it.†   (source)
  • The bishop who had taken him in, the man who had been like a father to him, the clergyman whom the camerlegno had stood beside while he rose to the papacy ....was a fraud.†   (source)
  • Harry caught Ron's eye and knew that Ron was thinking exactly the same as he was: they both knew that Professor Trelawney was an old fraud, but on the other hand, they loathed Umbridge so much that they felt very much on Trelawneys side — until she swooped down on them a few seconds later, that is.†   (source)
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