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fraudulentness

noun

as in duplicity

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  1. duplicity
  2. falseness
  3. affectation
  4. fakery
Noun
  • There’s a method to that madness, and all the duplicity, false assumptions pay off just like in an Agatha Christie classic.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Such fraudulence bore only poisoned fruit, swelling overseas bank accounts for the Manchurian candidates who were seeding duplicity into the loam of their nation’s imagination.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of duplicity
Noun
  • The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man.
    — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Definition of falseness
Noun
  • With rare exceptions, EV sound is little more than an affectation.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Robinhood's banking product arrived with private-bank affectations, estate planning, event access, cash to the door, priced at $5 a month inside a bundle a 30-year-old already pays for.
    — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of affectation
Noun
  • Notably, some mockumentaries blur the lines between reality and fakery.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The easy, and increasingly convincing, fakery of artificial intelligence has arguably supercharged it.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of fakery
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