Fraudulent

a.	1.	Using fraud; tricky; deceitful; dishonest.
	2.	Characterized by, founded on, or proceeding from, fraud; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. - Milton.
	3.	Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest.

Adj.

1.

fraudulent - intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" Synonyms: deceitful, fallacious

amoral, artful, bent, brigandish, burglarious, calculating, chiseling, collusive, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, counterfeit, covinous, crafty, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceptive, devious, dishonorable, double-dealing, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous, evasive, false, falsehearted, falsified, felonious, finagling, fishy, forged, furtive, guileful, ill-got, ill-gotten, imitation, immoral, indirect, insidious, kleptomaniac, larcenous, light-fingered, not kosher, pinchbeck, piratelike, piratic, questionable, rotten, scheming, shady, sham, shameless, sharp, shifty, sinister, slippery, sneaky, spurious, sticky-fingered, surreptitious, suspicious, thieving, thievish, treacherous, trickish, two-faced, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, wily, without remorse, without shame

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