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English
Etymology
From Middle English fraudful, equivalent to fraud + -ful.
Adjective
fraudful (comparative more fraudful, superlative most fraudful)
- (archaic) fraudulent.
- Synonym: deceitful
a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Husband and Wife”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior , volume II, London: W Strahan, , published 1779, →OCLC, pages 169–170:From this curſt hour, the fraudful dame / Of ſacred Truth uſurps the name, / And, vvith a vile, perfidious mind, / Roams far and near, to chat mankind; / Falſe ſighs ſuborns, and artful tears, / And ſtarts vvith vain pretended fears; […]
1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy , →OCLC, part I, section IV, page 37:[C]hildren, ſervants, are falſe, fraudful, foul, if the miſanthropic man, who is father and maſter, lets fall among them, in his outbreaks of paſſion, his opinion that they are ſo.
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