fraudulentadjective
uk/ˈfrɔː.dʒə.lənt/us/ˈfrɑː.dʒə.lənt/fraudulent adjective (CRIME)
C2 dishonest and illegal:
A worrying trend for insurers has been a rise in fraudulent claims.
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Fraud & corruption
- baksheesh
- blackmail
- buy sb off
- cook
- cook the books idiom
- corrupt
- corruption
- front for sth
- game-fixing
- get at sb
- graft
- impersonate
- imposture
- launder
- Ponzi scheme
- rort
- shell
- siphon sth off
- suborn
- swindle
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fraudulent adjective (FALSE)
intended to deceive:
They claim that the fall in unemployment is based on a fraudulent manipulation of statistics.
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Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- down-and-dirty
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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fraudulence
noun [ U ] uk/ˈfrɔː.dʒə.ləns/us/ˈfrɑː.dʒə.ləns/
fraudulently
adverb uk/ˈfrɔː.dʒə.lənt.li/us/ˈfrɑː.dʒə.lənt.li/