fraudful
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English fraudful, equivalent to fraud + -ful.
Adjective
editfraudful (comparative more fraudful, superlative most fraudful)
- (archaic) fraudulent.
- Synonym: deceitful
- a. 1722 (date written), 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.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “fraudful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.