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fraudulent (adjective)
1. Engaging in fraud; deceitful; not honest, true, or fair, and intended to deceive people.
2. Characterized by, constituting, or gained by fraud; such as, fraudulent business practices.
3. Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fraudulentus, from fraus, fraud, "deceit".
2. Characterized by, constituting, or gained by fraud; such as, fraudulent business practices.
3. Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fraudulentus, from fraus, fraud, "deceit".
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fraudulent concealment, suppression of evidence
1. The deliberate hiding, non-disclosure, or suppression of essential facts or circumstances that someone is legally or morally required to reveal; especially, with the intention to deceive or to defraud a person in a contractual arrangement.
2. Concealment, destruction or withholding of, or refusal to give, material evidence which a person has or knows and is legally or morally boung to reveal.
2. Concealment, destruction or withholding of, or refusal to give, material evidence which a person has or knows and is legally or morally boung to reveal.
It is normally considered an '"obstruction of justice" which is a criminal offense.
3. A deliberate attempt to withhold information or to conceal an act to avoid a contractual responsibility.Fraudulent concealment that is applied to health care providers comes up when a treating doctor conceals from an aggrieved patient that a previous treating doctor may have committed malpractice.