How to Use fraudulent in a Sentence

fraudulent

adjective

• Corrupt leaders were chosen in a fraudulent election.
• No money was lost as the transaction was flagged as fraudulent.
  — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Courts have repeatedly rejected claims of fraudulent or rigged elections.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 23 Apr. 2024
• Perhaps the greatest disservice to vaccination has been the fraudulent claim that childhood vaccines cause autism.
  — Gary Simon, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2023
• Of those, there were 40 cases that involved the kind of fraudulent voting of the type banned everywhere, such as voter impersonation.
  — Matt Mencarini, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
• Despite his retreat from the streets, Mr. Rondón admires those who continue to stand up against the government’s fraudulent claims of victory.
  — Mie Hoejris Dahl, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2024
• There are many standards for measuring what equates to a ton of removed carbon, and several high-profile examples of projects that either burned up in wildfires themselves or were outright fraudulent.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• Schmoke says that claims that the book was fraudulent stung Moore.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 18 July 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
• 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
• The resident notified the IRS that the filing was fraudulent.
  — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
• 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
• But the Trump team argued Monday night that the president was not in the position to deceive anyone about whether the election was fraudulent.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• If Beard does strike this deal, she will be forced to repay all the proceeds obtained through her fraudulent schemes and surrender any of the assets acquired as a result.
  — Mario Abad, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
• The department’s woes worsened when a state audit found that at least $10 billion in claims paid by the state were fraudulent (that figure later grew to at least $20 billion).
  — Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• According to data shared by the company, the amount of fraudulent ad requests from the schemes taking place now has completely dropped off.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
• It was augmented by a fraudulent 1998 paper tying the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine to autism.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2024
• Checks are largely governed by state law through the Uniform Commercial Code, which gives consumers up to a year to inform their bank of a fraudulent or altered check.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024
• However, Riley sued the company, claiming that the note was forged and fraudulent.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
• In the eight months since Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, the platform has increasingly been home to fraudulent accounts.
  — WIRED, 26 July 2023
• He is being charged for a failure to file and pay taxes, evasion of assessment, false or fraudulent tax return, and failure to file and pay taxes.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2023
• The indictment charges him with failure to file and pay taxes, evasion of assessment and filing a false or fraudulent tax return.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023
• The suspects used the licenses for fraudulent purchases or sold them on the underground market.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
• These four audio clips were found to be of Nate Libby, a dockside worker who later pleaded guilty to making a fraudulent Mayday call.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
• This bonding moment proves memorable, thanks to a fraudulent twist.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
• Earlier, Keeling was sentenced to 90 days in jail and four years of probation in March for fraudulent schemes and drug possession.
  — Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2024
• And there’s no evidence that those states are more likely to have fraudulent elections because of their return window.
  — Ashley Lopez, NPR, 6 June 2024
• According to his plea agreement, Chavez diverted ketamine from his former ketamine clinic and submitted a fraudulent prescription in the name of an unwitting former patient.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024