All 10 Uses of
fraud
in
The Crucible
- Proctor, respected and even feared in Salem, has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud.
p. 21.0 *fraud = a person who is dishonest about who they are
- You must tell them it is a fraud.
p. 53.2fraud = someone who deceives others or something intended to deceive -- usually for financial gain or ego
- I think it is not easy to prove she's fraud, and the town gone so silly.
p. 53.9fraud = a person who is dishonest about who they are
- I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it.
p. 54.6fraud = someone who deceives others or something intended to deceive -- usually for financial gain or ego
- It is fraud, you know it is fraud!
p. 78.6
- It is fraud, you know it is fraud!
p. 78.6
- The girls, sir, the girls are frauds.†
p. 87.1
- For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud—God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
p. 120.3fraud = someone who deceives others or something intended to deceive -- usually for financial gain or ego
- It is a fraud.
p. 136.3
- As though she had denied this he calls angrily at her: Let Rebecca go like a saint; for me it is fraud! Voices are heard in the hall, speaking together in suppressed excitement.
p. 138.4
Definition:
the act of deceiving someone for personal gain; or a person or thing that is not what it pretends or appears to be