fraudulently

fraudulent | American Dictionary

fraudulent
adjective
us/ˈfrɔ·dʒə·lənt/

fraudulentadjective (FALSE)

not what it claims or pretends to be:
fraudulent advertising

fraudulentadjective (ILLEGAL)

intended to deceive people for the purpose of obtaining money or property:
There’s been a rise in fraudulent insurance claims.

fraudulent | Business English

fraudulent
adjective
uk /ˈfrɔːdjələnt/us
intended to deceive someone, for example, to get money:
They thought I might try to collect insurance on a fraudulent claim.
For a charge of fraudulent trading to succeed, dishonesty would first have to be proved.

Examples of fraudulent

fraudulent
Regulation of drugs generally eliminated poorly manufactured and fraudulent drugs, thus reducing the likelihood that someone would take a medicine that was harmful to them.
In hosiery manufacture, abatements for alleged negligent or fraudulent work were similarly a frequent cause of friction.
He was, presumably, averse to risking public humiliation, and did not want to endorse a possibly fraudulent tomb.
Officials do not have to run routine checks any longer but concentrate on special risk cases, where the user might have submitted a fraudulent declaration.
He had still, however, to resort to a secret and almost certainly fraudulent count by a hand-picked committee to secure victory.
At most banks, to identify potential fraudulent at source, part of the review process of applications for new credit cards involves routine information checks.
While many organizations have programs to deter and detect fraudulent payments, improper payments resulting from miscalculation and other errors often receive inadequate attention.
Cosmetic surgeons who engage in misleading or fraudulent advertising appear to want to have it both ways.
The appeal made to tradition for the subordination of intercourse to procreation was fraudulent.
Section head- the number of occasions that fraudulent claims are made, ie indicators of honesty or dishonesty.
Both might just by accident hit on the fraudulent behaviour eliciting the desired response, and subsequently adopt it as a strategy in such situations.
In addition, it carries mail that is sealed against inspection and acts as a watchdog over fraudulent use of the mails.
Since such fraudulent claimants are not actually unemployed, it is wrong that they should be counted as so.
Many of these actions revolved round false and fraudulent claims in the health sector.
Even so, election judges could be so intimidated by the crowd outside that they would accept fraudulent votes.
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