fraudulence
- n a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
- n the quality of being fraudulent
- n something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- It offers the dream of creative fraudulence and the payoff of a frog kissing a princess, if he can only find the right mix of lies and lust.
- From his very first book 1957's The Mystic Masseur, about a deceitful guru a dislike of fraudulence and "mimic men" has run through Naipaul's corpus, as it apparently does .
- The 41-year-old Beijing-native showed little emotion as a Hong Kong judge chastised him for his "greed" and "dishonesty and fraudulence.