Word Meanings - FRAUDULENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest. 2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton. 3. Obtained or performed

Additional info about word: FRAUDULENT

1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest. 2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRAUDULENT)

• Deceitful
• Deceptive
• delusive
• fraudulent
• fallacious
• Surreptitious
• Stealthy
• furtive
• unauthorized
• underhanded
• clandestine
• Underhand
• Clandestine
• dishonest
• unfair
• surreptitious

Related words: (words related to FRAUDULENT)

• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• FURTIVE
  Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. Prior. A hasty and furtive ceremony. Hallam.
• DELUSIVE
  Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. Whewell. -- De*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- De*lu"sive*ness, n.
• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• UNDERHANDEDLY
  In an underhand manner.
• FRAUDULENTLY
  In a fraudulent manner.
• FURTIVELY
  Stealthily by theft. Lover.
• UNDERHAND
  Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow. (more info) 1. Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent. Addison.
• DECEPTIVELY
  In a manner to deceive.
• FALLACIOUS
  Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. -- Fal*la"cious*ly, adv. -Fal*la"cious*ness, n.
• DECEITFULLY
  With intent to deceive.
• UNFAIR
  To deprive of fairness or beauty. Shak.
• CLANDESTINE
  Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. Locke. Syn. -- Hidden; secret; private; concealed; underhand; sly; stealthy; surreptitious;
• DISHONESTLY
  In a dishonest manner.
• FRAUDULENT
  1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest. 2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton. 3. Obtained or performed
• UNDERHANDED
  1. Underhand; clandestine. 2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.
• STEALTHY
  Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak.
• DISHONEST
  1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them . Sir T. North. 2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears,
• DECEPTIVENESS
  The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.
• UNAUTHORIZE
  To disown the authority of; to repudiate.