'Fraudulent' definitions:
Definition of 'fraudulent'
From: WordNet
adjective
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, fraudulent]
Definition of 'Fraudulent'
From: GCIDE
- Fraudulent \Fraud"u*lent\, a. [L. fraudulentus, fr. fraus, fraudis, fraud: cf. F. fraudulent.]
- 1. Using fraud; tricky; deceitful; dishonest. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Characterized by, founded on, or proceeding from, fraud; as, a fraudulent bargain. [1913 Webster]
- He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fraudulent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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