All 8 Uses of
fraud
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Your brother Ivan writes theological articles in joke, for some idiotic, unknown motive of his own, though he's an atheist, and he admits it's a fraud himself—that's your brother Ivan.†
Chpt 2
- His whole theory is a fraud!†
Chpt 2 *
- You must admit that medicine is a fraud, Karamazov," cried Kolya warmly.†
Chpt 10
- But in my soul I have a profound contempt for the classics and all that fraud....You don't agree, Karamazov?†
Chpt 10
- Why 'fraud'?†
Chpt 10
- So what can one call it but a fraud?†
Chpt 10
- Medicine's a fraud!†
Chpt 10
- While I have that money on me, he said, I am a scoundrel, not a thief, for I can always go to my insulted betrothed, and, laying down half the sum I have fraudulently appropriated, I can always say to her, 'You see, I've squandered half your money, and shown I am a weak and immoral man, and, if you like, a scoundrel' (I use the prisoner's own expressions), 'but though I am a scoundrel, I am not a thief, for if I had been a thief, I shouldn't have brought you back this half of the money, but should have taken it as I did the other half!'†
Chpt 12fraudulently = done in a manner intended to deceive
Definition:
the act of deceiving someone for personal gain; or a person or thing that is not what it pretends or appears to be