fraus

The etymology, by the way, traces to the Latin word fraus - which the Obama campaign might bear in mind if it's planning to whip up any more of those mock presidential seals.

Assyrian International News Agency 2008

I quite agree with him; indeed, there is little doubt but that these bald statements of fact as to the stoutness of the Transvaal "fraus," and the lack of cleanliness in their homes, went near to precipitating a result that, as it chanced, was postponed for several years.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

Behind me one of the stout "fraus" lay upon the ground.

Allan's Wife Henry Rider Haggard 1890

"fraus," the "spreading," the sauer-kraut -- the conestogas, the red barns, the guttural voices, the strange faces -- were these actual things, or the mere fancies of a somnambulist?

Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee John Esten Cooke 1858

Obama Obama Obama He has broken yet another campaign pledge by hiring this tax fraus and tax cheat.

Daschle, Soetoro-Ng to serve on White House commission 2009

Also recognizable would have been those twenty-two skinheads and their fraus who, on July 24, 1994, according to an Associated Press account, attacked the Buchenwald camp “shouting ‘Sieg Heil,’ giving the stiff-armed Hitler salute, and threatening to burn ‘with their own hands’ a woman who works at the camp.”

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

A lot of the boys are buying diamonds now—the last things left to the Kraut fraus.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

Asiaticus accepted that option, lamenting that his demise should come as a result of fraus muliebris womanly trickery.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Si in forum iveris, ibi rixae, et pugnae; si in curiam, ibi fraus, adulatio: si in domum privatam, &c. 1753.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Religion may be an excellent means of curbing and controlling the perverse, dull, and malicious creatures of the biped race; in the eyes of the friend of truth every fraus, be it ever so pia, must be rejected.

Essays of Schopenhauer 2004