Fraudulent

3 definitions found

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

  Fraudulent \Fraud"u*lent\, a. [L. fraudulentus, fr. fraus,
     fraudis, fraud: cf. F. fraudulent.]
     1. Using fraud; tricky; deceitful; dishonest.
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     2. Characterized by, founded on, or proceeding from, fraud;


        as, a fraudulent bargain.
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              He, with serpent tongue, . . .
              His fraudulent temptation thus began. --Milton.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fraudulent
       adj : 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}]

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

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "fraudulent":
     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