Fraudulent

Quick meaning: Fraudulent is an adjective meaning Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.

Meaning

Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.

More Meanings

1. False, phony.

Example Sentences

He tried to pass a fraudulent check.

One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume [The Prince].

The only reaſon, why men are not always ſufficiently ſenſible of This ; ſo that Many, who are very Juſt in their Dealings between Man and Man, will yet be very fraudulent or rapacious with regard to the Publick ; is becauſe, in this latter caſe, ’tis not ſo obviouſly and immediately apparent uppon Whom the Injury falls, as it is in the caſe of Private Wrongs.

Secondly, Philoſophy which we are warned not to take heed of : not that Philoſophy, which is true & ſound knowledge attained by naturall diſcourſe of reaſon ; but that Philoſophy which to bolſter hereſie or error, caſteth a fraudulent ſhew of reaſon vpon things which are indeed vnreaſonable, & by that meane as by a ſtratageme ſpoyleth the ſimple which are not able to withſtand ſuch cunning.

Synonyms for fraudulent

Depending on context, synonyms include fallacious, deceitful, dishonorable, dishonest.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deceitful, fallacious, dishonest, dishonorable, cheated, covinous.

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