All 11 Uses
fraud
in
The Goldfinch
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- That he has a workshop turning out these frauds but washes his hands of how you dispose of them?†
p. 453.6
- "No thanks," I said, conscious of Mrs. Vogel's gaze boring into me, cold fraudulent smile, eyes like agate chips in her smooth, aging-milkmaid face.†
p. 459.6 *fraudulent = dishonest
- Somehow, even shrouded and entombed in the storage locker, it had worked itself free and into some fraudulent public narrative, a radiance that glowed in the mind of the world.†
p. 490.8
- And sometimes —" darting flick of the brush—"the edge between puffery and fraud is very cloudy indeed."†
p. 492.9
- But though some fair offers had come in recently I'd turned them all down—simply because such an irreproachable piece standing in the well-lighted entrance of the shop shed such a flattering glow on the frauds buried in back.†
p. 496.7
- So, I mean —" dipping his brush, peering myopically at the chest—"fraud's hard to prove, but if you don't take care of this, it's a pretty sure thing that this will pop back and bite us somewhere down the road."†
p. 496.8
- Every day, I wondered when and how the first fraud might surface: a letter from a lawyer, a phone call from the American Furniture department at Sotheby's, a decorator or a collector charging into the store to confront me, Hobie coming downstairs, listen, we've got a problem, do you have a minute?†
p. 516.6
- I'd taken care to change into a fresh one after work—if there was one thing my opiated years had taught me (not to mention my years of antiques fraud), it was that starched shirts and suits fresh from the cleaners' went a long, long way toward hiding a multitude of sins —but I'd been loopy and careless from the morphine tabs, drifting around my bedroom and humming to Elliott Smith as I dressed, sunshine ...been keeping me up for days ...and (I noticed) one of my cuffs wasn't done up properly.†
p. 568.4
- Many accusations of fraud, yah yah.†
p. 686.2
- Probably just as well if I admitted, in writing, the furniture fraud, and made it crystal-clear he'd had no knowledge of it.†
p. 726.9
- A year is how long it's taken me to quietly wander round on my own and re-purchase the frauds still out, a delicate proceeding which I've found is best conducted in person: three or four trips a month, New Jersey and Oyster Bay and Providence and New Canaan, and—further afield —Miami, Houston, Dallas, Charlottesville, Atlanta, where at the invitation of my lovely client Mindy, the wife of an auto-parts magnate named Earl, I spent three fairly congenial days in the guest house of a spanking new coral-stone chateau featuring its own billiard parlour, "gentleman's pub" (with authentic, imported, English-born barkeep), and indoor shooting range with custom track mounted target system.†
p. 759.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(fraud) the act of deceiving someone for personal gain; or a person or thing that is not what it pretends or appears to be
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)