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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɔː.dʒʊ.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔː.dʒə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔː.djə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔːdʒ.lənt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɔ.d͡ʒə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɑd͡ʒ.lənt/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɑ.d͡ʒə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɑd͡ʒ.lənt/

形容詞

fraudulent (comparative more fraudulent, superlative most fraudulent)

1. Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: William Stansbye, published 1622, book III, page 98:

     Secondly, Philoſophy which we are warned not to take heed of : not that Philoſophy, which is true & ſound knowledge attained by naturall diſcourſe of reaſon ; but that Philoſophy which to bolſter hereſie or error, caſteth a fraudulent ſhew of reaſon vpon things which are indeed vnreaſonable, & by that meane as by a ſtratageme ſpoyleth the ſimple which are not able to withſtand ſuch cunning.

   • a. 1729, Samuel Clarke, “The Reward of Justice”, in The Works of Samuel Clarke, volume II, London: J. and P. Knapton, published 1738, page 191:

     The only reaſon, why men are not always ſufficiently ſenſible of This ; ſo that Many, who are very Juſt in their Dealings between Man and Man, will yet be very fraudulent or rapacious with regard to the Publick ; is becauſe, in this latter caſe, ’tis not ſo obviouſly and immediately apparent uppon Whom the Injury falls, as it is in the caſe of Private Wrongs.

   • 1827, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Machiavelli”, in Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, new edition, volume I, London: Printed for Longman et al., published 1850, page 28:

     One writer gravely assures us that Maurice of Saxony learned all his fraudulent policy from that execrable volume [The Prince].

2. False, phony.

   He tried to pass a fraudulent check.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:deceptive
• See also Thesaurus:fake

派生語

• fraudulently

Collocations