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Fraudulence definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRAUD'ULENCE,
FRAUD'ULENCY, n. Deceitfulness; trickishness in making bargains, or in social concerns.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a fraudulent or duplicitous representation [syn: fraudulence, duplicity]
2: the quality of being fraudulent [syn: fraudulence, deceit]
3: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage [syn: fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1601 the quality or state of being fraudulent

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fraudulence Fraud"u*lence (?; 135), Fraudulency Fraud"u*len*cy, n. [L. fraudulentia.] The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. --Hooker.

Moby Thesaurus

ballot-box stuffing, bunco, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, cozenage, criminality, crookedness, deviousness, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dishonor, dodge, evasiveness, feloniousness, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, illicit business, imposition, imposture, improbity, indirection, racket, scam, shadiness, shiftiness, slipperiness, swindle, trickiness, unconscientiousness, underhandedness, unsavoriness, unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness