- present participle of defraud.
defrauding
Example Sentences
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In his plea agreement, he admitted to tricking and defrauding at least 25 people into paying him at least $152,476.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Griffiths, 52, who is from Malvern in Worcestershire, previously pleaded guilty to defrauding Joanne of £4,500 and Helen of £10,178.42.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Exiled Chinese entrepreneur Guo Wengui, convicted of defrauding thousands of people of more than $1 billion, was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison by a federal court in New York, US media reported.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
A startup founder who expensed “cellulite butter” to the bank during her trial for defrauding the bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
I felt entirely innocent of defrauding two governments, and did not realize that I was a smuggler.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis
