All 10 Uses of
fraud
in
The Fountainhead
- He's put up seventeen skyscrapers, eight cathedrals, six railroad terminals and God knows what else.... Of course, you know, he's an old fool and a pompous fraud who oils his way into everything and...†
Chpt 1.4
- There would have been no harm, if the ludicrous had not become the tragic—and the fraudulent.†
Chpt 2.12 *fraudulent = dishonest
- The A.G.A. issued a dignified statement denouncing the Stoddard Temple as a spiritual and artistic fraud.†
Chpt 2.12
- They made a lot of noise and sold snares to a lot of wealthy suckers—it was just a huge fraud.†
Chpt 4.1
- And may we be damned if greatness must reach us through fraud!†
Chpt 4.1
- Monadnock Valley is a fraud—but not merely a financial one.†
Chpt 4.1
- 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.†
Chpt 4.7
- This was the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind.†
Chpt 4.18
- By this fraud they were made to destroy the ego, themselves and others.†
Chpt 4.18
- The purpose of the fraud was to destroy the creators.†
Chpt 4.18
Definition:
the act of deceiving someone for personal gain; or a person or thing that is not what it pretends or appears to be