fraudulent

UK/ˈfɹɔːdjʊ.lənt/

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,568 of 15,258leans written

Fraudulent means done to cheat people out of money or rights. A fraudulent claim.

It requires dishonesty rather than error, which is what makes it hard to prove. A fraudulent transaction on a card is the bank's loss rather than yours in most countries.

Definitions of fraudulent

1adjectivefraudulentDone to cheat people out of money or rights.B2+
“Every fraudulent invoice was for just under the approval limit.”

fraudulent is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin fraudulentus comes from fraus, deceit.

Latin
fraudulentus
Old French
fraudulent
Middle English
fraudulent
English, today
fraudulent

Built from

fraus · Latin — fraud

From Middle English fraudulent, from Old French fraudulent, from Latin fraudulentus, from fraus (“fraud”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

fraudulent in the wild

While they were imprisoned Lincoln released a similar proclamation to Howard and Mallison's fraudulent one, which called for 500,000 new volunteers for the Union army.
Civil War gold hoax
False insurance claims are insurance claims filed with the fraudulent intention towards an insurance provider.
Insurance fraud
Animals are often used as a device to clearly demonstrate the lax standards or fraudulent activities of the awarding institutions.
List of animals awarded human credentials
In company law, fraudulent trading is doing business with intent to defraud creditors.
Fraudulent trading
Job fraud is fraudulent or deceptive activity or representation on the part of an employee or prospective employee toward an employer.
Job fraud

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the fraus family

fraud

fraudulent — used about once every 9,395 pages · #11,568 · point at the bar for the others

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