All 8 Uses of
fraudulent
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Longfellow
- Of every malice that wins hate in Heaven, Injury is the end; and all such end Either by force or fraud afflicteth others.†
Canto 1.1-11
- But because fraud is man's peculiar vice, More it displeases God; and so stand lowest The fraudulent, and greater dole assails them.†
Canto 1.1-11
- But because fraud is man's peculiar vice, More it displeases God; and so stand lowest The fraudulent, and greater dole assails them.†
Canto 1.1-11 *
- Fraud, wherewithal is every conscience stung, A man may practise upon him who trusts, And him who doth no confidence imburse.†
Canto 1.1-11
- Art thou so early satiate with that wealth, For which thou didst not fear to take by fraud The beautiful Lady, and then work her woe?†
Canto 1.12-22
- And he replied: "It was the Friar Gomita, He of Gallura, vessel of all fraud, Who had the enemies of his Lord in hand, And dealt so with them each exults thereat; Money he took, and let them smoothly off, As he says; and in other offices A barrator was he, not mean but sovereign.†
Canto 1.12-22
- He goes not on the same road with his brothers, By reason of the fraudulent theft he made Of the great herd, which he had near to him; Whereat his tortuous actions ceased beneath The mace of Hercules, who peradventure Gave him a hundred, and he felt not ten.†
Canto 1.23-34
- Francis came afterward, when I was dead, For me; but one of the black Cherubim Said to him: 'Take him not; do me no wrong; He must come down among my servitors, Because he gave the fraudulent advice From which time forth I have been at his hair; For who repents not cannot be absolved, Nor can one both repent and will at once, Because of the contradiction which consents not.'†
Canto 1.23-34
Definition:
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(fraudulent) dishonesty -- usually for financial gain or ego