fraudstress en · NOUN
Etymology
From fraudster + -ess.
Meanings
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(no-plural, rare) A female fraudster.
She was quite certain now there was a divine conspiracy to expose her for who and what she really was—Katherine Baxter, hopelessly on-the-shelf spinster, and just as hopelessly inept fraudstress—and banish her back to Bellingham Hall where she’d never see the light of day again.
2013, Karen Lingefelt, chapter 3, in Wagered to the Duke, Siren-BookStrand, →ISBN, page 35:After all, there have must have been at least a dozen American serial killers who used newspaper personal and want ads to locate potential victims. They were essential to the modi operandi of Belle Gunness, the turn-of-the-century Western insurance fraudstress who may have killed 40 people before disappearing mysteriously, […]
2009 May 15, Colby Cosh, “From Craigslist to Johns’ List”, in National Post, volume 11, number 166, page A15:[…] 25-year-old benefit fraudstress […]
1995, Fortean Times, page 18:The cast of characters she [Annette Messager] embodied in her projects included “the practical woman”, “the collector”, “the fraudstress” and “the artist”.
2022, Olga Smith, “1970s: Engagement and Subjectivity”, in Contemporary Photography in France: Between Theory and Practice (The Lieven Gevaert Series), Leuven University Press, →ISBN, section “Mythologies of the Self: Photography in Artistic Practices”, page 49:Perhaps we should also have the concept of fraudstress or, if we are to eliminate such terminology from out^([sic]) vocabulary, we should talk about a fraud person.
1986, Great Britain Parliament, House of Commons, Official Report of the Standing Committees, page 25, column 2:The sources, however, tell a different story, that of a fraudstress [Diana Stewart] who adapted to her circumstances like a chameleon in order to make a living, relying on female networks to gain credibility, and in the process hoodwinking both the Royalists and [John] Thurloe, while managing to keep her sexual reputation intact.
2018, Nadine Akkerman, “The Credibility and Archival Silence of She-Intelligencers: Women on the Council of State’s Payroll”, in Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 74: