fraudulent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FRAUD'ULENT, adjective 1. Deceitful in making contracts; trickish; applied to persons. 2. Containing fraud; founded on fraud; proceeding from fraud; as a fraudulent bargain. 3. Deceitful; treacherous; obtained or performed by artifice.
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