fraudulence

Example Sentences

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WeWork was different, perhaps because Neumann’s fraudulence wasn’t the criminal kind, just the kind that wholesomely convinced some very rich people to let him light their money on fire.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2023

This fraudulence then feeds into the cynicism and alienation that are also defining features of our era.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2022

“The brand has a youthful folly, a crude sense of pop weirdness — detractors claim its fraudulence — unsuitable for a major house,” K. Austin Collins wrote for Vanity Fair.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2021

But for all of her husband’s fraudulence and her tacit complicity, she retains a core of innocence and sincerity or so concludes this patchy but glibly watchable movie.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021

The author of this latter critique further proves the fraudulence by asserting that allusion is made in the book to “facts and circumstances which did not happen until Yorick was dead.”

From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)