Fraudulence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fraudulence \Fraud"u*lence\ (?; 135), Fraudulency
  \Fraud"u*len*cy\, n. [L. fraudulentia.]
     The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit;
     trickishness. --Hooker.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "fraudulence":
     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