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  • The company was shut down after investigators uncovered a massive tax fraud scheme.
    fraud = deception to get something illegally
  • Also, is the Dutch Tulip Man a fraud or does he really love them?  (source)
    fraud = a person who is dishonest about who they are
  • 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)
    fraud = something intended to deceive
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  • "You're helping perpetuate this fraud," he told Lori.  (source)
    fraud = something intended to deceive
  • It is because your husband is himself fraudulent and dishonest that we pair so well together.  (source)
    fraudulent = intentionally dishonest to trick people
  • You, Count Olaf, are under arrest for various murders and attempted murders, various frauds and...  (source)
    frauds = illegal deceptions for financial gain
  • I had been recalcitrant, had not gone through the chain of command, had cheated the county out of gas money, had obtained the gas fraudulently, had lied, broken promises, and failed to live up to obligations and commitments.†  (source)
    fraudulently = done in a manner intended to deceive
  • He suspected, in turn, Bergotte, the painter, the Verdurins; paused for a moment to admire once again the wisdom of people in society, who refused to mix in the artistic circles in which such things were possible, were, perhaps, even openly avowed, as excellent jokes; but then he recalled the marks of honesty that were to be observed in those Bohemians, and contrasted them with the life of expedients, often bordering on fraudulence, to which the want of money, the craving for luxury, the corrupting influence of their pleasures often drove members of the aristocracy.†  (source)
    fraudulence = deception
  • But Valentine knew it was a fraud.  (source)
    fraud = something intended to deceive
  • So they bought fraudulent passports and set sail for Sydney, where they landed on July 29, 1949.†  (source)
    fraudulent = dishonest
  • 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
  • Now in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation — in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.†  (source)
    fraudulently = done in a manner intended to deceive
  • So it may be that what she runs into in the darkness is the fraudulence of her attempt to "be Indian."†  (source)
    fraudulence = deception
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