fraudful

English

Etymology

From Middle English fraudful, equivalent to fraud + -ful.

Adjective

fraudful (comparative more fraudful, superlative most fraudful)

  1. (archaic) fraudulent.
    Synonym: deceitful
    • a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Husband and Wife”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior [], volume II, London: [] W[illiam] 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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