Sample Sentences forfraud (editor-reviewed)
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She was arrested for committing credit card fraud after using someone else’s account to buy expensive electronics.fraud = deception to get something illegally
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She claimed to be a war hero, but it turned out she had never even served in the military. She was a complete fraud.fraud = someone who tricks others by
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She stole money by filing a fraudulent insurance claim.fraudulent = dishonest
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The company was shut down after investigators uncovered a massive tax fraud scheme.fraud = deception to get something illegally
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I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. (source)fraud = intentional deception
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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
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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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It is because your husband is himself fraudulent and dishonest that we pair so well together. (source)fraudulent = intentionally dishonest to trick people
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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
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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)
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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)
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"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)fraud = a person who is dishonest about who they are
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So they bought fraudulent passports and set sail for Sydney, where they landed on July 29, 1949.† (source)
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You, Count Olaf, are under arrest for various murders and attempted murders, various frauds and... (source)frauds = illegal deceptions for financial gain
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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)
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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)
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