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Definition
intentional deception — usually for financial gain or ego
- There would have been no harm, if the ludicrous had not become the tragic—and the fraudulent.2.12 — Part 2 Chapter 12 (3% in)
- Of course, you know, he's an old fool and a pompous fraud who oils his way into everything and..."1.4 — Part 1 Chapter 4 (47% in)
- The A.G.A. issued a dignified statement denouncing the Stoddard Temple as a spiritual and artistic fraud.2.12 — Part 2 Chapter 12 (20% in)
- They made a lot of noise and sold snares to a lot of wealthy suckers—it was just a huge fraud.4.1 — Part 4 Chapter 1 (67% in)
- And may we be damned if greatness must reach us through fraud!4.1 — Part 4 Chapter 1 (80% in)
- Monadnock Valley is a fraud—but not merely a financial one.4.1 — Part 4 Chapter 1 (86% in)
- But he knew that Gordon L. Prescott and Gus Webb represented so impertinent, so vicious a fraud that to suspend the evidence of his eyes was beyond his elastic capacity.4.7 — Part 4 Chapter 7 (15% in)
- This was the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind.4.18 — Part 4 Chapter 18 (60% in)
- By this fraud they were made to destroy the ego, themselves and others.4.18 — Part 4 Chapter 18 (71% in)
- The purpose of the fraud was to destroy the creators.4.18 — Part 4 Chapter 18 (72% in)
There are no more uses of "fraudulent" in The Fountainhead.
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