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fraudulence

noun
/ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.l(ə)ns/UK/ˈfɹɔ.d͡ʒə.ləns/US

Etymology

From Old French fraudulence, from Latin fraudulentia (“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”), from fraudulentus (“deceitful, fraudulent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). Fraudulentus is derived from fraus (“deceit, fraud”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrew- (“to mislead”)) + -ulentus (“abounding in, full of”).

  1. derived from *dʰrew-✻
  2. derived from fraudulentia
  3. derived from fraudulence

Definitions

  1. The condition of being fraudulent

    The condition of being fraudulent; deceitfulness.

    • I ſuppoſe ſome of my friends, to whom I read the firſt part, gave notice of my deſign, and, perhaps, ſold the treacherous intelligence at a higher price than the fraudulence of trade will now allow me for my book.
    • We should therefore not make too much of the fraudulence of all that on-screen wailing. Just because North Korean TV never films anything before rehearsing all spontaneity out of it does not mean the average citizen was unmoved.
    • Among other fraudulences, Enron perfected the art of “mark to market” accounting, tagging mere estimates of future profits as actual on-the-books assets.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fraudulence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA