fraudulent

From Middle English fraudulent, from Old French fraudulent, from Latin fraudulentus, from fraus (“fraud”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɔː.dʒʊ.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔː.dʒə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔː.djə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔːdʒ.lənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɔ.d͡ʒə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɑd͡ʒ.lənt/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɑ.d͡ʒə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɑd͡ʒ.lənt/

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fraudulent (comparative more fraudulent, superlative most fraudulent)

1. Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: William Stansbye, published 1622, book III, page 98:

     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.

   • a. 1729, Samuel Clarke, “The Reward of Justice”, in The Works of Samuel Clarke, volume II, London: J. and P. Knapton, published 1738, page 191:

     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.

   • 1827, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Machiavelli”, in Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, new edition, volume I, London: Printed for Longman et al., published 1850, page 28:

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

2. False, phony.

   He tried to pass a fraudulent check.

• See also Thesaurus:deceptive
• See also Thesaurus:fake

• fraudulently

Borrowed from Latin fraudulentus.

fraudulent (feminine fraudulenta, masculine plural fraudulents, feminine plural fraudulentes)

1. fraudulent

• fraudulentament

• frau
• fraudulència

• “fraudulent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fraudulent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “fraudulent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fraudulent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• fraudelent, ffraudulent

From Middle French fraudulent, itself borrowed from Latin fraudulentus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrau̯diu̯lɛnt/, /ˈfrau̯dilɛnt/

fraudulent

1. Dishonest, fraudulent; based on fraud.
2. Necrotic, rotting; infected with or afflicted with gangrene.

• English: fraudulent

• “fraude, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-06.