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Fraudulent definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRAUD'ULENT, a.
1. Deceitful in making contracts; trickish; applied to persons.
2. Containing fraud; founded on fraud; proceeding from fraud; as a fraudulent bargain.
3. Deceitful; treacherous; obtained or performed by artifice.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" [syn: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century characterized by, based on, or done by fraud ; deceitful • fraudulently adverb • fraudulentness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 characterized or achieved by fraud. 2 guilty of fraud; intending to deceive. Derivatives: fraudulence n. fraudulently adv. Etymology: ME f. OF fraudulent or L fraudulentus (as FRAUD)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fraudulent Fraud"u*lent, a. [L. fraudulentus, fr. fraus, fraudis, frand: cf. F. fraudulent.] 1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest. 2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. --Milton. 3. Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest. --Milton. Syn: Deceitful; fraudful; guileful; crafty; wily; cunning; subtle; deceiving; cheating; deceptive; insidious; treacherous; dishonest; designing; unfair.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A fraudulent activity is deliberately deceitful, dishonest, or untrue. ...fraudulent claims about being a nurse. ADJ: usu ADJ n • fraudulently The report concludes that I acted neither fraudulently nor improperly. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Dishonest, knavish, treacherous, deceitful, deceptive, false, crafty, wily, tricky, trickish.

Moby Thesaurus

amoral, artful, bent, brigandish, burglarious, calculating, chiseling, collusive, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, counterfeit, covinous, crafty, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, deceptive, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous, evasive, fake, false, falsehearted, falsified, felonious, finagling, fishy, forged, furtive, guileful, ill-got, ill-gotten, imitation, immoral, indirect, insidious, kleptomaniac, larcenous, light-fingered, not kosher, pinchbeck, piratelike, piratic, questionable, rotten, scheming, shady, sham, shameless, sharp, shifty, sinister, slippery, sneaky, spurious, sticky-fingered, surreptitious, suspicious, thieving, thievish, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two-faced, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, wily, without remorse, without shame