fraudful en · ADJ
Etymology
From Middle English fraudful, equivalent to fraud + -ful.
Meanings
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(archaic) fraudulent.
[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.
1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC, part I, section IV, page 37: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; […]
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most fraudful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more fraudful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |