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Antonyms for fraudulent


Grammar : Adj
Spell : fraw-juh-luhnt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrɔ dʒə lənt



Definition of fraudulent

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Middle French fraudulent, from Latin fraudulentus "cheating, deceitful," from fraus (see fraud). Related: Fraudulently.
  • adj deceptive, false
Example sentences :
  • Why does his lordship wish to find this—this—fraudulent person?
  • Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
  • A fraudulent old baronet is running race-horses on the cross.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • The agent and principal at a fraudulent sale shall be equally liable.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • But who is going to be able to prove that it was fraudulent?
  • Extract from : « The Masked Bridal » by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
  • If there be psychic phenomena, there must be fraudulent psychic phenomena.
  • Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort
  • Nor I; for he could easily be convicted of fraudulent statements.
  • Extract from : « The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus » by Horatio Alger Jr.
  • They themselves, in turn, were the victims of fraudulent and untradesmanlike imitations.
  • Extract from : « The Library » by Andrew Lang
  • The fraudulent auctioneer was naught in his sight but a breaker of the law.
  • Extract from : « "Unto Caesar" » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • It is said that a fraudulent representation must be material to have that effect.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • It was her fraudulent mortgage on the future and its possibilities.
  • Extract from : « The Art of Disappearing » by John Talbot Smith

Synonyms for fraudulent

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