Meaning

(rare) A female fraudster..

Example Sentences

Perhaps we should also have the concept of fraudstress or, if we are to eliminate such terminology from out^([sic]) vocabulary, we should talk about a fraud person.

[…] 25-year-old benefit fraudstress […]

After all, there have must have been at least a dozen American serial killers who used newspaper personal and want ads to locate potential victims. They were essential to the modi operandi of Belle Gunness, the turn-of-the-century Western insurance fraudstress who may have killed 40 people before disappearing mysteriously, […]

She was quite certain now there was a divine conspiracy to expose her for who and what she really was—Katherine Baxter, hopelessly on-the-shelf spinster, and just as hopelessly inept fraudstress—and banish her back to Bellingham Hall where she’d never see the light of day again.

The sources, however, tell a different story, that of a fraudstress [Diana Stewart] who adapted to her circumstances like a chameleon in order to make a living, relying on female networks to gain credibility, and in the process hoodwinking both the Royalists and [John] Thurloe, while managing to keep her sexual reputation intact.

The cast of characters she [Annette Messager] embodied in her projects included “the practical woman”, “the collector”, “the fraudstress” and “the artist”.

When Should You Use Fraudstress?

Use fraudstress when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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