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Examples of fraudulent in a Sentence
Corrupt leaders were chosen in a fraudulent election.
fraudulent use of a credit card
the victim of a fraudulent scheme
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Taubman never lets his closeness to his subject cloud incisive judgments of an admirable career that was not without failings, including a reprehensible episode near its end involving the fraudulent biomedical company Theranos and its disgraced founder, Elizabeth Holmes.
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Philip Taubman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Courts have repeatedly rejected claims of fraudulent or rigged elections.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 23 Apr. 2024
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Philip Taubman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Courts have repeatedly rejected claims of fraudulent or rigged elections.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 23 Apr. 2024
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“Fraudulent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fraudulent. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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fraudulent
adjective
fraud·u·lent
ˈfrȯ-jə-lənt 
: based on or done by fraud
fraudulently
adverb
fraudulentness
noun
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