All fraudulent synonyms
fraud·u·lent
F f adj fraudulent
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- crooked — If you describe something as crooked, especially something that is usually straight, you mean that it is bent or twisted.
- dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- forged — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
- sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- crafty — If you describe someone as crafty, you mean that they achieve what they want in a clever way, often by deceiving people.
- criminal — A criminal is a person who regularly commits crimes.
- devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- duplicitous — marked or characterized by duplicity.
- mock — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- pseudo — not actually but having the appearance of; pretended; false or spurious; sham.
- spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- tricky — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
adjective fraudulent
- untrue — not true, as to a person or a cause, to fact, or to a standard.
- false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- falsified — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- imitation — a result or product of imitating.
- illegal — forbidden by law or statute.
- bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.