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Something intended to deceive
Answer for the clue "Something intended to deceive ", 11 letters:
fraudulence
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Word definitions for fraudulence in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fraudulence \Fraud"u*lence\ (?; 135), Fraudulency \Fraud"u*len*cy\, n. [L. fraudulentia.] The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. --Hooker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"deceit," c.1500, from Middle French fraudulence , from Latin fraudulentia , from stem of fraus (see fraud ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fraudulent or duplicitous representation [syn: duplicity ] the quality of being fraudulent [syn: deceit ] something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage [syn: fraud , dupery , hoax , humbug , put-on ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being fraudulent
Usage examples of fraudulence.
His most hostile critics agreed that the man was a gifted impostor -- so much so that in some instances the question of his fraudulence became more metaphysical than legal or ethical.
I had been going to declare my identity and aim, Bray's necessary fraudulence, my ignorance of the nature of Commencement but conviction that I would discover it -- this and more.
I was going to make a child who could exist without fraudulence, who would be a god if nothing in the universe ever worshiped him.
The press of other business prevented the office from being abolished after the signal's fraudulence was clarified.
As he listened to himself playing the game of love, employing strategies of false affection and shameless flattery, he was amazed at how convincing others found him, for he could hear the insincerity in his voice, could feel the fraudulence in every gesture, and was acutely aware of the deceit behind his every loving smile.
Aware of the fraudulence of what he was proposing, he assured Jay that “scruples of delicacy and propriety .
Of course, her subsequent training had taught her the fraudulence of such notions, but the ties that bound child to parent were, like roots, often resistant to change.