All 21 Uses of
fraudulent
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 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.
Chpt 19frauds = people who are dishonest about who they are
- If they warn't the beatenest lot, them two frauds, that ever I struck.
Chpt 24
- 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.
Chpt 25
- 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!"
Chpt 25
- You're a fraud, that's what you are!
Chpt 25fraud = 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.
Chpt 25fraud = person who is dishonest about who he is
- I says to myself, shall I go to that doctor, private, and blow on these frauds?
Chpt 26frauds = 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.
Chpt 27
- These uncles of yourn ain't no uncles at all; they're a couple of frauds—regular dead-beats.
Chpt 28 *
- "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—"
Chpt 28
- I see how maybe I could get me and Jim rid of the frauds; get them jailed here, and then leave.
Chpt 28
- The duke he never let on he suspicioned what was up, but just went a goo-gooing around, happy and satisfied, like a jug that's googling out buttermilk; and as for the king, he just gazed and gazed down sorrowful on them new-comers like it give him the stomach-ache in his very heart to think there could be such frauds and rascals in the world.†
Chpt 29
- —and very convenient, too, for a fraud that's got to make signs, and ain't learnt how.
Chpt 29fraud = person who is dishonest about who they are
- Preacher be hanged, he's a fraud and a liar.
Chpt 29
- The doctor says: "Neighbors, I don't know whether the new couple is frauds or not;"
Chpt 29frauds = people who are dishonest about who they are
- ...but if THESE two ain't frauds, I am an idiot, that's all.
Chpt 29
- First, the doctor says: "I don't wish to be too hard on these two men, but I think they're frauds, and they may have complices that we don't know nothing about."
Chpt 29
- 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?
Chpt 29
- Well, everybody WAS in a state of mind now, and they sings out: "The whole BILIN' of 'm 's frauds!"†
Chpt 29
- So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again.
Chpt 31frauds = people who are dishonest about who they are
- They had the cheek, them frauds!
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(fraudulent) dishonesty -- usually for financial gain or ego