[ US /ˈfɹɔdʒəɫənt/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈɔːdjʊlənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. intended to deceive
    fallacious testimony
    a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes
    deceitful advertising
    smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice
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How To Use fraudulent In A Sentence

  • Across the street, protesters denounced what they called a fraudulent vote and urged a boycott. Undefined
  • Despite a string of victories-the judge's stinging decision enumerating Allen's "fraudulent modus operandi," occasional media coverage, and the support of real CIA agents and military heroes-he is no closer to collecting the $40,000 he says was "conned" from his family in 1993. Edgar Allen
  • Through oversubtle and even fraudulent construction of law, he said, much wrong was committed (De officiis I. EQUITY IN LAW AND ETHICS
  • The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
  • He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
  • The practice is quasi fraudulent and ought to be outlawed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although he apparently waited for confirmation from his bank that the cheque had cleared before making the payments, he was subsequently advised that the cheque was fraudulent and had been dishonoured.
  • Not a fraudulent posturing designed to once again coverup a corporate takeover of a regions sole method of funding their growth as a country or region. Think Progress » A Progressive Exit Strategy
  • The Mpumalanga government on Tuesday warned that fraudulent licence syndicates, that issued thousands of fake drivers licences from former homeland testing centres throughout the province, had now moved their operations to major cities such as Witbank. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Third, I want to assure you that members of US admissions committees can generally spot fraudulent work in an instant. Hired help usually doesn't work.
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