fraudulentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (without the yod-coalescence) IPA: /ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔː.djə.lənt/
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA: /ˈfɹɔː.d͡ʒʊ.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔː.d͡ʒə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔːd͡ʒ.lənt/
• (General American)
  • (without the cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈfɹɔ.d͡ʒə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɔd͡ʒ.lənt/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈfɹɑ.d͡ʒə.lənt/, /ˈfɹɑd͡ʒ.lənt/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈfɹɒd͡ʒ.ə.lənt/, [ˈfɹɒd͡ʒ.lənt]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈfɹoː.d͡ʒə.lənt/, /ˈfɹoːd͡ʒ.lənt/
• ハイフネーション: frau‧du‧lent

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

Collocations

語源

From Middle French fraudulent, itself borrowed from Latin fraudulentus.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfrau̯diu̯lɛnt/, /ˈfrau̯dilɛnt/

形容詞

fraudulent

1. Dishonest, fraudulent; based on fraud.
2. Necrotic, rotting; infected with or afflicted with gangrene.

派生した語

• English: fraudulent

参照

• “fraude, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 December 2018.