How to Use fraudulence in a Sentence

fraudulence

noun
Definition of fraudulencenext
Synonyms for fraudulencenext
  • And that brings us back to the fraudulence of public salutes to King.
    — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The act of changing out stemware came to stand in for the fraudulence of my married life.
    — Stephanie Danler, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The pandemic has laid bare the fraudulence of so many things.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Was this—and the consequent feeling of fraudulence—what set loose the saboteur?
    — Tom Junod, Esquire, 22 Apr. 2014
  • Within the space of a chapter, Adam’s alertness to fraud will come to seem a corollary of his own prodigious fraudulence.
    — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Violence is man’s response to the fraudulence of his power and the limits of his knowledge.
    — Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Seen again on the small screen, the film looks a little seedier, and the precise balance that the actor found between fraudulence and bonhomie—truth or dare, so to speak—is lost.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The truth is that via the use of your bank account information, all manner of unsavory fraudulence will be played out by the scammers.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The hope, perhaps, is that thousands or millions of Q believers will now accept the fraudulence of their bizarre fantasy.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Historical fraudulence is a problem, but the reasons behind it are what cause alarm.
    — Armond White, National Review, 21 Sep. 2022
  • But, throughout the book, Kang displays a certain paranoia about fraudulence, and voices his skepticism of the élite Asians who presume to share a bond with people unlike them.
    — Marella Gayla, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2021
  • His Twitter feed is filled with eruptions about the fraudulence of the Russia investigation.
    — Eli Lake, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
  • Now that a trumpeting fraudulence has become one of the modes of power, and the mega-real has colonized reality?
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • When the object of the sport is to manipulate joints and execute chokes and deliver kicks like this to the head of an opponent, there’s little room for fraudulence and artifice.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • One of the ghosts from his past turns out to be real — an eye-patched, trench-coated fellow soldier seeking revenge for Bastrop’s cowardice — and Bastrop must escape harm and then confront his own trauma and fraudulence.
    — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Only in the 1990s did revisionist scholarship reveal this portrait to be tendentious almost to the point of fraudulence.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Imposter Syndrome stems from a chronic sense of self-doubt and sense of intellectual fraudulence despite evidence and track records of success.
    — Kara Stevens, Essence, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The movie doesn’t so much satirize Nazis, let alone expose the fraudulence of contemporary hatemongers (such as neo-Nazis or alt-rightists) or mainstream Republican Trump-cultists.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Furthermore, each product comes with a money back guarantee to give you ample protection against fraudulence.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • To expose the fraudulence of Mumler’s work, Barnum arrived in court with an image made by another photographer that showed Abraham Lincoln’s ghost standing behind him.
    — Louis P. Masur, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Or is West simply latching onto that durable, centuries-long tradition of laundering human fraudulence through Jesus Christ?
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Gruden formulated this theory about purpose and fraudulence and death.
    — SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Yet the film hangs fire, and, while Jim shrivels into a small and whining figure, Tammy Faye swells into a grand American hybrid, both rapacious and devout, and so relentlessly sincere that any fussing over fraudulence is trampled underfoot.
    — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
  • What the young Reinhold Niebuhr experienced as a sense of fraudulence was really more like an appropriate humility: the words of sermons matter, even if neither Pew nor the very people who deliver them can ever know precisely how.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2021
  • In sum, the Trump campaign’s fraud allegation is more theoretically aimed at the system of voting than concretely aimed at demonstrating the fraudulence of any particular ballot.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 9 Nov. 2020
  • This is what the dark and lamentable catalogue of Trump-Republican wrongdoing has shriveled down to: cherry picking among the allegations that could be made to reveal the fraudulence of the whole nonsensical Russian-collusion business.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 6 Feb. 2018

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