(a.) Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain.
(a.) Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest.
Example Sentences:
(1) YouTube has always audited videos in an effort to try to spot inflated counts, but the company is now stepping up its efforts according to Pfeiffenberger: "While in the past we would scan views for spam immediately after they occurred, starting today we will periodically validate the video’s view count, removing fraudulent views as new evidence comes to light.
(2) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
(3) If a contactless card is used fraudulently, consumers are fully protected against any losses and will not be left out of pocket, the association has said.
(4) Like his wind turbine though, discreetly taken down some months later, many people are now concluding that Cameron's promise to lead the " greenest government ever " was little more than a fraudulent gimmick, a PR stunt from a man schooled in the PR industry.
(5) Belgium may seek compensation over the €4.5m (£3.2m) spent on its unsuccessful 2018 World Cup bid if Fifa’s decision to award the finals to Russia is found to be fraudulent.
(6) "What we do is we take them to court when they are fraudulently claiming the wrong benefits.
(7) The company said there was evidence that the information had been used for fraudulent transactions.
(8) The Trading Standards Institute has said the discovery of such high levels of horse meat suggests "deliberate fraudulent activity".
(9) A corrupt group of officials expropriated his fund, Hermitage Capital, and used it to make a fraudulent tax claim.
(10) "I have been, and still am, pained by what I and my family are facing from fraudulent campaigns and unfounded allegations that seek to harm my reputation, my integrity and my military and political record."
(11) Part of the growth is coming as fraudsters are moving away from a small number of hot spot locations to a much wider footprint.” In the past the north-west – particularly Manchester – had been the focal point for the fraudulent claims but partly as a result of the number of successful prosecutions there, fraudsters have now moved on.
(12) The dire performance of a £3bn contract to upgrade NHS computer systems had been "fraudulently concealed" from investors in American IT contractor Computer Sciences Corporation for years, according to a class action claim being brought by angry shareholders.
(13) Maduro narrowly won elections in April over Capriles, who claims the victory was fraudulent.
(14) Because supply chains are so long and processors use subcontractors to supply meat when the volume of orders changes dramatically at short notice, it is all too easy for mislabelled, poorer quality, or downright fraudulent meat to be substituted for what is specified in big abattoirs and processing plants.
(15) Academic misconduct entails fraudulent behavior involving some form of deception whereby one's work or the work of others is misrepresented.
(16) Fraudulent articles and errors lead, at best, to misunderstandings and, at worst, to dire consequences in the treatment of patients.
(17) However, it appears that the unit has attracted some individuals who are not completely truthful and have given fraudulent accounts to investigators.
(18) HG, Doncaster, South Yorks It turns out that the account was, after all, fraudulent and EE says that it has now finally contacted you to explain.
(19) Industry sources also suggested to the Observer that gangs operating in Russia and the Baltic states were playing a role in the fraudulent meat trade.
(20) We believe the primary purpose of this was not to steal customer information but was criminal activity to acquire new handsets fraudulently.” Three said it was continuing to work with law enforcement agencies, and as a precaution additional security measures had been placed on customer accounts.
Misappropriation
Definition:
(n.) Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
Example Sentences:
(1) Supposedly posted by a blogger in Niger, they accused Z of misappropriating money from the trust fund and of a sex offence.
(2) Barcelona have previously said of Bartomeu: “He made it clear that it has never been his intention, nor that of the club’s executives, to aim to defraud the national tax office.” Rosell resigned as president in January 2014, saying: “An unfair and reckless accusation of misappropriation has resulted in a lawsuit against me in the Audiencia Nacional [the high court].
(3) Wildstein pleaded guilty in a two-count indictment Friday, charging misappropriation of government funds under a little-used federal fraud statute , and conspiracy to deny civil rights.
(4) However, the Guardian has been told by a former staff member who contributed to the report that he had flagged up serious concerns about bullying of one particular staff member who subsequently left the team – and misappropriation of British Cycling resources in the report.
(5) "In his speech this morning, Rupert Murdoch confused aggregation with wholesale misappropriation.
(6) I don't put the marbles in the same category, but they are on that spectrum of misappropriation.
(7) Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington has accused Rupert Murdoch of confusing aggregation with misappropriation following his Federal Trade Commission speech claiming "There's no such thing as a free news story" .
(8) The term has been misappropriated to the point of being just another bland synonym – just like most of the marketing speak that infests most of modern English.
(9) It wouldn’t surprise me if certain elements misappropriated the [new government’s] mandate … for their virulent ways of living and thinking … but they will be disappointed,” said Samir Saran of the Observer Research Foundation, a Delhi-based thinktank.
(10) Chen, who studied briefly at Birmingham University, is the most senior of at least half a dozen politicians and businessmen implicated in the misappropriation of about a third of Shanghai's 10bn yuan (£700m) social security fund.
(11) The powers of the Charity Commission to root out charities that misappropriate funds towards extremism and terrorism will also be strengthened.
(12) But it was his role at the centre of a Hollywood scandal involving the misappropriation of funds by producer David Begelman at Columbia Studios that brought Robertson additional – and unwanted – celebrity, adversely affecting his subsequent career.
(13) Franz Beckenbauer , the first man to win the World Cup as a captain and manager, is facing a criminal investigation in Switzerland on suspicion of financial corruption after prosecutors named him as one of four men suspected of fraud, criminal mismanagement, money laundering and misappropriation during Germany’s bid for the 2006 World Cup.
(14) The HRW report said corruption in the country had mainly impacted ordinary people, as money intended for public services including life-saving treatment or infrastructure projects have all but been misappropriated.
(15) Springsteen’s Born In The USA, about another Vietnam veteran suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, is surely the most misunderstood and misappropriated song of all time.
(16) Most of the litigation seemed to stem from Mike Love: when his most recent legal claim – that Wilson's promotion of the finished Smile album "shamelessly misappropriated Mike Love's songs, likeness and the Beach Boys trademark as well as the Smile album itself" – Rolling Stone gleefully reported it with the headline: "Brian Wilson finally defeats one of Mike Love's dubious lawsuits."
(17) Based on our considered finding, there is more than sufficient evidence to mount a case of misappropriation, conspiracy to defraud and official corruption against Prime Minister Peter O’Neill.” The lead lawyer from the firm in question, Paul Paraka, was charged with 22 fraud-related offences by the taskforce in October last year .
(18) These take the form of an all-too-typical alleged expenses scandal on the part of Harper-appointed(-for-life) senators – spectacularly compounded by the fact that the most egregious offender, after promising to repay the misappropriated money, was quietly slipped $90,000 by the prime minister's chief of staff in order to do so.
(19) They are also seeking compensation for an alleged misappropriation of Gaye’s After the Dance in Thicke’s song Love After War.
(20) "In recent days an unfair and reckless accusation of misappropriation has resulted in a lawsuit against me in the Audiencia Nacional.