FRAUDULENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fraudulently mean? 

• FRAUDULENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb FRAUDULENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a dishonest and fraudulent manner

  Familiarity information: FRAUDULENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRAUDULENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a dishonest and fraudulent manner

Context example:

this money was fraudulently obtained

Pertainym:

fraudulent (intended to deceive)

 Context examples 

That these meshes; beginning with alarming and falsified accounts of the estate of which Mr. W. is the receiver, at a period when Mr. W. had launched into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from—HEEP—and by—HEEP—fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries—gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr. W. could see no world beyond.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)