How to Use fraudulence in a Sentence

fraudulence

noun
  • And that brings us back to the fraudulence of public salutes to King.
    — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The act of changing out stemware came to stand in for the fraudulence of my married life.
    — Stephanie Danler, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The pandemic has laid bare the fraudulence of so many things.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 10 Aug. 2020
  • That sense of fraudulence seeped into other areas of her life, beyond pageantry.
    — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Was this—and the consequent feeling of fraudulence—what set loose the saboteur?
    — Tom Junod, Esquire, 22 Apr. 2014
  • Violence is man’s response to the fraudulence of his power and the limits of his knowledge.
    — Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Historical fraudulence is a problem, but the reasons behind it are what cause alarm.
    — Armond White, National Review, 21 Sep. 2022
  • For several years, Smith has been grappling with the novel’s fraudulence.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Within the space of a chapter, Adam’s alertness to fraud will come to seem a corollary of his own prodigious fraudulence.
    — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The truth is that via the use of your bank account information, all manner of unsavory fraudulence will be played out by the scammers.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • If fraudulence signals are shared across departments, a candidate who bypassed one check could be caught by another.
    — Casey Marquette, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But in fact, what the term refers to is a psychological condition in which a person suffers from feelings of self-doubt or fraudulence.
    — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • The hope, perhaps, is that thousands or millions of Q believers will now accept the fraudulence of their bizarre fantasy.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Now that a trumpeting fraudulence has become one of the modes of power, and the mega-real has colonized reality?
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • Seen again on the small screen, the film looks a little seedier, and the precise balance that the actor found between fraudulence and bonhomie—truth or dare, so to speak—is lost.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Furthermore, each product comes with a money back guarantee to give you ample protection against fraudulence.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • His Twitter feed is filled with eruptions about the fraudulence of the Russia investigation.
    — Eli Lake, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
  • Gruden formulated this theory about purpose and fraudulence and death.
    — SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Public reaction to his fraudulence was ferocious.
    — David Treuer, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • When the object of the sport is to manipulate joints and execute chokes and deliver kicks like this to the head of an opponent, there’s little room for fraudulence and artifice.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Imposter Syndrome stems from a chronic sense of self-doubt and sense of intellectual fraudulence despite evidence and track records of success.
    — Kara Stevens, Essence, 22 Aug. 2019
  • But, throughout the book, Kang displays a certain paranoia about fraudulence, and voices his skepticism of the élite Asians who presume to share a bond with people unlike them.
    — Marella Gayla, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Only in the 1990s did revisionist scholarship reveal this portrait to be tendentious almost to the point of fraudulence.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Or is West simply latching onto that durable, centuries-long tradition of laundering human fraudulence through Jesus Christ?
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Weir gave art-house slickness to screenwriter Andrew Niccol’s ponderous attack on television’s fraudulence and mass-audience cretins.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
  • One of the most emotional pieces of the show occurs while Sweetpea calls Harper, confirming Tender’s fraudulence, all crescendoing synths glittering over plaintive piano chords.
    — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 2 Mar. 2026
  • To expose the fraudulence of Mumler’s work, Barnum arrived in court with an image made by another photographer that showed Abraham Lincoln’s ghost standing behind him.
    — Louis P. Masur, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Two opponents become four, then seven, then nine, then 11, the rapidly inflating numbers making Falstaff’s fraudulence comically evident.
    — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The former is propelled by the invention of a device that whitens Black people’s skin; in the latter, the protagonist wonders about the appearance of a new Black colleague, one whose obsequious manner suggests a deeper, more sinister fraudulence.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This particular set of islanders seemed immune from the usual unscripted television fraudulence; their sincere reactions to romantic heartbreak and platonic betrayal accurately reflected the emotional rollercoaster of modern dating.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024

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