All 3 Uses of
fraud
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Pious fraud but quite right: otherwise they'd have one old booser worse than another coming along, cadging for a drink.†
Chpt 5 *
- And his old fellow before him perpetrating frauds, old Methusalem Bloom, the robbing bagman, that poisoned himself with the prussic acid after he swamping the country with his baubles and his penny diamonds.†
Chpt 12
- Mendicancy: that of the fraudulent bankrupt with negligible assets paying 1s.†
Chpt 17fraudulent = dishonest
Definition:
the act of deceiving someone for personal gain; or a person or thing that is not what it pretends or appears to be