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  • I thought they were frauds.†   (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)
  • He had masqueraded at the hospital for eight years conducting competency evaluations on people accused of crimes before his fraud was uncovered.†   (source)
  • Oh Harry, you aren't going to pay attention to anything that old fraud says?†   (source)
  • A fat lot of good it's brought this family, with people banging on the door and all the neighbors thinking we've been done for benefit fraud or some such.†   (source)
  • More recently, the distinguished astronomer Fred Hoyle had claimed that a fossil winged dinosaur, Archaeopteryx, on display in the British Museum, was a fraud.†   (source)
  • She felt like a fraud.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But Valentine knew it was a fraud.†   (source)
  • You, Count Olaf, are under arrest for various murders and attempted murders, various frauds and attempted frauds, and various despicable acts and attempted despicable acts, and you, my bald, long-nosed friend, are under arrest for helping him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The responses had been mostly fraudulent, but Ho Chi Minh City had paid off.†   (source)
  • She wouldn't say what was wrong, but Olly had overheard words like "fraud" and "investigation."†   (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)
  • She felt like a fraud.†   (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)
  • Davis estimated that Holmes made $200,000 through his drugstore and other business ventures, most of which were fraudulent.†   (source)
  • So it may be that what she runs into in the darkness is the fraudulence of her attempt to "be Indian."†   (source)
  • For credit card fraud.†   (source)
  • 2 million in damages for the fraud.†   (source)
  • I swear, since seeing Your face, the whole world is fraud and fantasy.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "If you refuse to charge me a reasonable price, then I'll have no choice but to report you for fraud."†   (source)
  • Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.†   (source)
  • He had been promoted and played a key role in the firm's development and was an expert in financial fraud.†   (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)
  • Still another insisted that fraud had been committed.†   (source)
  • He was arrested on fraud charges and got sentenced to two years.†   (source)
  • The parents accepted what Nye implied-that parole violation and financial fraud were all that motivated his pursuit of their son.†   (source)
  • That starts with an F. 'So does fraud,' the prosecutor pointed out.†   (source)
  • He felt like a fraud.†   (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)
  • Then, turning to Milo, he said, "Don't believe a thing this old fraud says."†   (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)
  • She's a fraud: the whole world is a fraud, one bright, shiny scam.†   (source)
  • I felt like a fraud.†   (source)
  • His collection rate was about 95 percent; he attributed the underpayment to oversight, not fraud.†   (source)
  • For Internet auction fraud.†   (source)
  • Does this mean that the Pepsi Challenge was a fraud?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Lorenzo allowed himself to feel a moment of hope and prayed that the Realtor wasn't a fraud.†   (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)
  • I'm a coward and a fraud and I murdered his spirit.†   (source)
  • "A fraud!" boomed the Troll Prince Arawn, standing and shaking his armored fist.†   (source)
  • Ends up he did two years up in Lampoc for securities 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)
  • 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)
  • He'd skipped town, they'd say, because he was a fraud, a quack whom we never should've trusted.†   (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)
  • And now, of course, I feel like a fraud.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, God was the shameless fraud Stone had always found Him to be.†   (source)
  • Now I'm saying I can float again, and you have the audacity to call me a fraud.†   (source)
  • Years later, when it turned out that he was a fraud, you can imagine what the effect was.†   (source)
  • His second reaction, though, was more restrained—this lawyer was a fraud, a fake.†   (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 IRS'll get him for tax fraud.†   (source)
  • Is he the assassin of Asia or is he a fraud, a plant?†   (source)
  • At first I tried to stay on, but I just couldn't handle being part of a fraud.†   (source)
  • Ser Meryn, take this fraud to Qyburn.†   (source)
  • " "A stinking fraud," Hrothulf said, and bit his lip.†   (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)
  • That's fraud!'†   (source)
  • Even then, its primary role was to prevent currency fraud, not to protect the president.†   (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)
  • From the stairway leading up to the second floor of the house, I heard the sound of mocking, fraudulent applause.†   (source)
  • Even if I wanted to help the Milago, the second I opened my mouth they'd know I was a fraud.†   (source)
  • Careful tea parties and the quiet fear that I don't belong, that I'm a fraud?†   (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)
  • The fraudulent flower for Marco.†   (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)
  • …. officials in the downtown office say as much as $300,000 may have been misdirected by the fraudulent claims….†   (source)
  • I am a fraud.†   (source)
  • Or a dole fraud.†   (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)
  • After all, the two women in Room 822 of the Key Bridge Marriott both held French passports, though both documents were fraudulent.†   (source)
  • An 800-year tradition of postal fraud.†   (source)
  • The cheap fraud—†   (source)
  • He is a fraud and I know it.†   (source)
  • You fraud!†   (source)
  • Angrily I buckled my trousers and hurried home to report the fraud to Aunt Pat.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It was all such a 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)
  • …his address to crowded meetings with "My friends—and in that term I comprehend those who come to hear the truth and to believe it—none others," he attacked the resolutions as "false in their facts, incendiary in their temper, disunion in their object, high treason in their remedy, and usurpation in their character…… Thewhole 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)
  • I see how maybe I could get me and Jim rid of the frauds; get them jailed here, and then leave.   (source)
  • I says to myself, shall I go to that doctor, private, and blow on these frauds?   (source)
  • Preacher be hanged, he's a fraud and a liar.   (source)
    fraud = person who is dishonest about who they are
  • The doctor says: "Neighbors, I don't know whether the new couple is frauds or not;"   (source)
    frauds = people who are dishonest about who they are
  • 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)
  • —and very convenient, too, for a fraud that's got to make signs, and ain't learnt how.   (source)
    fraud = person who is dishonest about who they are
  • ...but if THESE two ain't frauds, I am an idiot, that's all.   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • You're a fraud, that's what you are!   (source)
    fraud = person who is dishonest about who they are
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • They had the cheek, them frauds!   (source)
    frauds = people who are dishonest about who they are
  • He can't go on; he feels too fraudulent.†   (source)
  • I am Nephilim, no matter how much I might think the Covenant is useless and the Law fraudulent.†   (source)
  • 'I just think she's an absolutely appalling teacher and a real old fraud.†   (source)
  • He'd put that on a giveaway calendar once, some fraudulent sex-enhancement product for women.†   (source)
  • Together they devised an elaborate life insurance fraud, which Mudgett described in his memoir.†   (source)
  • Please banish all thoughts of Mesmerism, and other such fraudulent procedures.†   (source)
  • They also think your tipster is a fraud.†   (source)
  • But Hermione was right, Harry thought irritably, Professor Trelawney really was an old fraud.†   (source)
  • She obviously reckons Trelawney's an old fraud, too… looks like she's put her on probation.†   (source)
  • He had arranged the insurance fraud for the money, but the rest of it was for fun.†   (source)
  • "Not James," says the voice, "you old fraud!"†   (source)
  • Holmes confessed to the fraud and agreed to be extradited to Philadelphia for trial.†   (source)
  • A fraud and murder investigation into the alleged suicide of a prominent local banker.†   (source)
  • The one facility he'd always trusted—memory—was a fraud.†   (source)
  • Not that Jaime was truly concerned about that fat fraud, or the gods he claimed to serve.†   (source)
  • The numbers of those checks could be punched on a fraud tape and sent to banks everywhere.†   (source)
  • Without her, the lords will only mock his claim and brand him a fraud and a pretender.†   (source)
  • Sukeena suggests she is "preparing" the room as well, the implication of fraud apparent.†   (source)
  • Again and again he said that she must think he was a fraud.†   (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)
  • Although she's a mess, her instinct for social fraud has sharpened.†   (source)
  • Payments to so-called suppliers whose invoices are fraudulent.†   (source)
  • So at last she gave him the answer he wanted … Yes, you are a fraud.†   (source)
  • He didn't want his path to citizenship to be based on fraud.†   (source)
  • My master said you were a sot and a fraud, as bad a priest as there ever was.†   (source)
  • A quite clever fraud perpetrated against that widow you represent.†   (source)
  • I suspected the truth was plain old medical fraud.†   (source)
  • He was serving a two-year sentence for fraud.†   (source)
  • He keeps one eye on the newspaper before his face: Welfare Fraud Investigated.†   (source)
  • I am talking about the fraudulent laws that have been passed in many of the States.†   (source)
  • He liked Tormund, and the old fraud liked him too.†   (source)
  • So you tell people that science is a futile fraud which ought to be abolished!†   (source)
  • Fifty-four months in federal prison for eBay fraud?†   (source)
  • There were charges, as well, of vote fraud and vote rigging.†   (source)
  • The fear of being unseated would do little to stop unfair and fraudulent elections.†   (source)
  • I'm a special investigator for the Bureau of Taxation and Records, Division of Fraud and Conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Convicted of insurance fraud in the seventies.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Worthington has not forgotten Ann's fraud at Christmas while Ann was a guest in their home.†   (source)
  • With her brothers dead, and both parents, who would dare name this one a fraud?†   (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)
  • Opponents are deliberately using fraud and deception.†   (source)
  • Are you asking me to help him stage a fraud of that kind?†   (source)
  • This would encourage election fraud, particularly in the more distant States.†   (source)
  • The most fraudulent part of the fraud was that they meant it.†   (source)
  • A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.†   (source)
  • Observe the triple fraud which he perpetrates upon himself.†   (source)
  • Force is all they know, force, fraud and plunder!†   (source)
  • "The literature of the past," said Balph Eubank, "was a shallow fraud.†   (source)
  • By every standard of mine, to maintain our marriage will be a vicious fraud.†   (source)
  • "Siddhartha," said Yama, "I know that you are a fraud.†   (source)
  • When the fraud was discovered, Vasia, who had suspected nothing, burst into tears.†   (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)
  • Pickett, who disappeared the night before a police raid on his home related to a fraud and bribery investigation, was last seen at his riverside compound on September eighth.†   (source)
  • The Lake Lachrymose Police Department will be happy to capture a known criminal wanted for fraud, murder, and the endangerment of children.†   (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)
  • "You know, I'm starting to think Hermione was right about her" — he jabbed his thumb toward the trapdoor overhead — "she's a right 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It was so abundantly clear that George was mentally ill that it came as no shock when we discovered that the doctor who had examined him at Bryce Hospital was a fraud with no medical training.†   (source)
  • Somehow, even shrouded and entombed in the storage locker, it had worked itself free and into some fraudulent public narrative, a radiance that glowed in the mind of the world. xvi.†   (source)
  • The blind specialist gets into a heated argument with the protagonist, whoaccuses 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)
  • 3 million in fines and pleaded guilty in federal court to charges involving wire fraud, the misgrading of crops, and the addition of water to grain.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • This was fraud on such a grand scale that no-one even dared to speculate on how many laws had been broken.†   (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)
  • He has been convicted on charges of receiving and concealing stolen property (1958), and conspiracy to commit tax fraud (1954).†   (source)
  • And sometimes —" darting flick of the brush—"the edge between puffery and fraud is very cloudy indeed."†   (source)
  • After buying the grain at an unfair price, ConAgra employees sprayed water on it and thereby fraudulently increased its weight, then sold it and cheated customers. the new industrial migrants†   (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)
  • 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)
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