Definition of fraudulent
fraudulently
adverbfraudulentness
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Examples of fraudulent in a Sentence
Corrupt leaders were chosen in a fraudulent election.
fraudulent use of a credit card
the victim of a fraudulent scheme
Recent Examples of fraudulent from the Web
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Prosecutors allege Oaks was paid $10,300 for writing letters on House letterhead with fraudulent details to help a confidential FBI source obtain federal grants and $5,000 to file a bond request seeking $250,000 in state funds for a project.
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Home Capital has plunged by about 60 percent in the past five weeks after a Canadian regulator accused it of misleading investors over an internal probe of fraudulent mortgage loan applications.
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Prosecutors estimate that $375 million in fraudulent claims were submitted to the government.
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During the conspiracy, Ahmed presented false documents, including a fraudulent $10 million loan document, to others.
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The code would then use the infected phone to click on Google ads, generating fraudulent revenue for the attacker.
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In March, the FCC proposed new rules designed to thwart harassing and fraudulent calls, allowing phone companies to block robo-calls coming from what look like illegitimate phone numbers.
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Its Synthesys product applies machine learning techniques to the analysis of business information, and can be used to identify potentially fraudulent transactions or to flag risky employee communications for regulatory compliance purposes.
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One of those two, Wells Fargo’s John Stumpf, is gone, having resigned last October in the aftermath of the bank’s fraudulent account scandal.
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15th Century
First Known Use of fraudulent
15th century
FRAUDULENT Defined for English Language Learners
fraudulent
playDefinition of fraudulent for English Language Learners
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: done to trick someone for the purpose of getting something valuable
FRAUDULENT Defined for Kids
fraudulent
playDefinition of fraudulent for Students
: based on or done by deceit a fraudulent claim
fraudulently
adverbLaw Dictionary
fraudulent
Legal Definition of fraudulent
: characterized by, based on, or done by fraud — compare deceptive, false, misleading
fraudulently
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