How to Use fraudulent in a Sentence

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• Corrupt leaders were chosen in a fraudulent election.
• Schmoke says that claims that the book was fraudulent stung Moore.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 18 July 2023
• All were charged with theft using a fraudulent card, a felony.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• The fraudulent check was cashed at a Walmart in Mentor.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
• Perhaps the clearest sign the image is fraudulent is the message’s length.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
• Officials charged the six suspects with at least 50 fraudulent rentals and thefts.
  — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• As further proof of the scam, her credit card statement showed what appeared to be $2,000 in fraudulent charges.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
• Here's what to know about the fraudulent act, how to prevent it and what real tracking messages look like from the U.S. Postal Service.
  — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
• But the researchers said there was no reason to believe the final vote totals in five key states were fraudulent.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• Ekho Moskvy and Dozhd were also sued by Rosneft in the past, as was Bloomberg, all for articles the oil major claims were fraudulent.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• Many people are fed up with the constant barrage of fraudulent calls and messages.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024
• Bug zappers are one of the favorite products of fraudulent seller farms.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
• That’s all the information a thief needs to create new checks and make fraudulent payments.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• No fraudulent charges have yet been reported on the man’s credit card.
  — cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
• But agents found many were fraudulent, according to the filing.
  — Johnny Edwards, ajc, 21 July 2022
• No money was lost as the transaction was flagged as fraudulent.
  — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• After the purchase the text was discovered to be fraudulent.
  — Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2022
• The Birmingham teen is also charged with fraudulent use of a credit card.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 3 May 2022
• Also in the car was the victim’s debit card, which was used to make $357 in fraudulent purchases at Dick’s Sporting Goods and Exxon.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 22 July 2022
• Knowing how to identify a scam and who is most likely to be duped is the first step in combatting these fraudulent schemes.
  — Amanda Musa, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
• The resident notified the IRS that the filing was fraudulent.
  — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
• That date was a reference to the year López Obrador came within 0.56% of the vote of winning the presidency and denounced his loss as fraudulent.
  — Time, 28 Nov. 2022
• There is also the question of whom the prosecutors would present as the victims of Trump’s fraudulent schemes at trial.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2022
• Employees at a bank in Michigan said her check was fraudulent.
  — Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022
• Pugh then spoke with a third bank employee who also said the check was fraudulent and because of that the bankback would not allow Pugh to open an account and deposit the check.
  — Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
• They were accused of conspiring to defraud Atlanta-area banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans in a scheme that went on for years.
  — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The city rejects the vast majority of claims, some of which officials say are fraudulent, but claimants may appeal in court.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
• The warehouse keeper at the time, John Thomson, who was in charge of all loans and pledges but also in league with the five fraudulent directors, hid the company’s books and fled the country.
  — Amy Froide, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
• That's the mindset of the ne’er-do-wells behind phishing websites, those fraudulent sites that emulate online banking sites, email services, and even dating and gaming sites.
  — PCMAG, 7 Mar. 2025
• This devious methodology tricked Google’s Play Store defenses by using a vanilla version of the app as an initial trojan horse before updating with the fraudulent ad code, an update not a new app.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Mar 2025