fraudulence
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8.7
- noun
- /ˈfrɔːdʒələns/
- The fraudulence of the company's financial reports led to a loss of trust from its investors.
Examples
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The investigation revealed the fraudulence behind the charity's claims of helping the needy.
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She felt a sense of fraudulence after being caught exaggerating her achievements on her resume.
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The very air shimmers with fraudulence.
Academic text (2007) -
It is born from fraudulence.
Academic text (2004) -
At their best, his films turn inward on Hollywood and expose the fraudulence of the magic world of cinema.
Academic text (2002) -
But for those to whom the least fraudulence adhered, names on request, he was merciless in his criticism.
Academic text (1995) -
The fraudulence of your pro-thug position is proven by the Peanut Corp. example given above.
Blog text (7) -
When it came to our self-perception, a clear note of fraudulence rang through the muggy Texas air.
Academic text (2004) -
"What if I said I was quitting the Party?" Elisha stared at him, inspecting for fraudulence.
Fiction book (2002) -
However, by the 1970s, the ridiculousness of that runaway plutocratic fraudulence became clearer.
Blog text (25)
Synonyms
607
4.0
Deceiving someone to get money or an unfair advantage
165
3.9
An action that makes someone believe something not true
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2.1
An act of tricking someone to get an unfair advantage
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4.6
Dishonest action meant to trick someone
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3.2
Actions like lying, cheating, or stealing
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4.9
To use dishonest ways to cheat people
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8.6
Secret or dishonest actions that try to cheat people
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8.1
Dishonest behavior that hides true intentions to trick someone
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9.3
Tricks people use to deceive others to get money or advantage
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2.8
An act of dishonesty that gives someone an unfair advantage
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6.8
A thing or action made to trick people into thinking it is real
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9.1
False talk or behavior meant to trick people
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8.8
A way of hiding the truth by pretending to be less involved
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7.0
Secret actions that are dishonest or unfair to get what you want
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6.5
Trying to make other people believe something that is not true
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7.5
Behaving dishonestly by pretending one thing and doing another
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6.0
Doing things quietly to trick people without them noticing
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9.8
Secret dishonest actions to get an unfair advantage
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6.9
Dishonest behavior by a person or group
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6.3
Dishonest behavior in business or money matters
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6.2
A habit of being dishonest and breaking rules to get money or power
1
9.9
Dishonest actions that try to trick people
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9.7
Dishonest words or actions that try to trick people
1
9.9
Behavior that hides the truth to mislead people
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7.2
A quality that makes something seem true when it is false
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8.8
A habit of ignoring right and wrong and being dishonest to get what you want
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9.5
Actions that cheat people to get their money
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9.9
Dishonest actions to get money or goods from people
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9.9
Tricks that fool people to gain an advantage
Antonyms
How Deceitful
Surface Forms
Morphology
fraudulence = fraudulent (transparent) = fraud + ulent + ence
Formed from the adjective 'fraudulent' with a standard noun-forming change to indicate the state or quality of being fraudulent, so the relation to 'fraud' is clear.
Etymology
The word fraudulence comes from the old Latin word fraus, which meant 'deceit' or 'cheat', and it is the same root you see in fraud and fraudulent. So, fraudulence means the quality of being dishonest to get an unfair benefit.