fraudulence

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Recent Examples of fraudulence If fraudulence signals are shared across departments, a candidate who bypassed one check could be caught by another. Casey Marquette, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 Against his mother’s advice, John Jr. dug into the family lore, unearthing all manner of fraudulence—enough to inspire this book. Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 Don Draper is his own brand of sad dad: the ’60s family patriarch whose existential crisis sends him bouncing between absurd heights of self-confidence and heartbreaking lows of absolute fraudulence. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2025 Despite Tartuffe's obvious fraudulence, Orgon remains blind to his faults. Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fraudulence
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Noun
  • That said, there are plenty of reasons — none involving any kind of partisan chicanery — that explain why California elections seems to drag on and vote totals shift as ballots are steadily counted.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • That said, there are plenty of reasons — none involving any kind of partisan chicanery — that explain why California elections seems to drag on and vote totals shift as ballots are steadily counted.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • This claim swayed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to note this version of the administration’s fabrication in his dissent, which will be forever linked to this administration’s subterfuge.
    Mark Pirie, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Both nations are among the tournament's top contenders, which made the last few practices stateside simmering with subterfuge.
    Ren Clayton, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Her lawyers, Giuseppe Iannaccone and Marcello Bana, have denied there was a case of grand larceny, which would include fraud and swindling.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Traitors winner Rob Rausch has paid the price for his trickery.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Mar. 2026
  • There’s almost nothing in the way of metaphor or trickery.
    Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The governor’s office offered no explanation for its skullduggery.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Soprano Nicole Car’s initially elegant Elizabeth accumulates both physical and vocal intensity as the opera exposes more and more skulduggery around her.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • This week, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi gave a master class in obfuscation, prevarication, and pettiness.
    John Ficarra, Air Mail, 11 Oct. 2025
  • There was no picture, there was no drawing, there has been so many lies, so much prevarication, so much cover up.
    John Parkinson, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity.
    Tina Nguyen, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Premiering in 2004, Project Runway was instrumental in ushering in a new style of reality competition based on skill rather than duplicity and cynicism.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The roles of bluffing and secrecy in our interactions with others (or, how lying can help—and hurt—us).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • OpenAI has also shared examples of its models cheating and lying and, in an experiment showcased on the second floor of its San Francisco headquarters, appearing to converse in a totally indecipherable language.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026

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“Fraudulence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fraudulence. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.

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