fraudulent 復習
On Saturday, Trump’s attorney John Dowd said he “pray[ed]” the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, would now “bring an end to alleged Russia collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier”. Dowd later said he had not been speaking for the president, as he first claimed.
Late on Saturday, Trump tweeted: “The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/18/trump-andrew-mccabe-memos-james-comey-fbi
“fraudulentでcorrupt「不正な」dossier”のfraudulent / frˈɔːdʒʊlənt / の意味が気になりました。LDOCEを参照したところ“intended to deceive people in an illegal way, in order to gain money, power etc”と定義されていました。『ジーニアス英和辞典』によると「詐欺（行為）の，不正な」と記載されています。またfraudsterで「（商取引での）詐欺師，ぺてん師」を意味します。
fraudの他に詐欺を表す名詞にscam, swindle, cheat, trickなどがあります。
