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imitation
(Music) Repetition of a phrase or melody often with variations in key, rhythm, and voice.
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  1. (Music) Repetition of a phrase or melody often with variations in key, rhythm, and voice.
  2. Something derived or copied from an original, often in an inferior way:
  3. The result or product of imitating; artificial likeness; copy
copy
Subject matter for a journalist, novelist, etc.
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  1. Subject matter for a journalist, novelist, etc.
  2. Material, such as a manuscript, that is to be set in type.
  3. A thing made just like another; imitation of an original; full reproduction or transcription
imposture
The act or instance of engaging in deception under an assumed name or identity.
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  1. The act or instance of engaging in deception under an assumed name or identity.
  2. The act or practice of an impostor; fraud; deception
cheat
One who cheats; a swindler.
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  1. One who cheats; a swindler.
  2. A code entered into a video game by a player, which allows advancement, as to a higher level, more easily
  3. A person who defrauds, deceives, or tricks others; swindler
counterfeit
One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
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  1. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
  2. A fraudulent imitation or facsimile.
  3. 1590Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene Book III, canto VIII:
fake
(Informal) A deceptive act, movement, etc.
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  1. (Informal) A deceptive act, movement, etc.
  2. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
  3. (Sports) A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
fabrication
A fabricating or being fabricated; construction; manufacture
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  1. A fabricating or being fabricated; construction; manufacture
  2. A fabricated thing; esp., a falsehood, false excuse, etc.
sham
An imitation that is meant to deceive; counterfeit
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  1. An imitation that is meant to deceive; counterfeit
  2. A person who is not what he or she pretends to be; fraud; impostor
  3. (Obs.) A trick or fraud
imposition
The forcing of oneself, one's presence or will, etc. on another or others without right or invitation
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  1. The forcing of oneself, one's presence or will, etc. on another or others without right or invitation
  2. A deception; fraud
  3. The arrangement of type pages or plates in the proper order of printing
fraud
A piece of trickery; a trick.
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  1. A piece of trickery; a trick.
  2. A person who deceives or who is not what he or she pretends to be; impostor; cheat
  3. A deception practiced in order to induce another to give up possession of property or surrender a right.
hoax
An act intended to deceive or trick.
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  1. An act intended to deceive or trick.
  2. A trick or fraud, esp. one meant as a practical joke
  3. Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means.
falsification
Knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
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  1. Knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  2. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
  3. Showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong
reproduction
The process by which cells and organisms produce other cells and organisms of the same kind. &diamf3; The reproduction of organisms by the union of male and female reproductive cells (gametes) is called sexual reproduction. Many unicellular and most multicellular organisms reproduce sexually. &diamf3; Reproduction in which offspring are produced by a single parent, without the union of reproductive cells, is called asexual reproduction. The fission (splitting) of bacterial cells and the cells of multicellular organisms by mitosis is a form of asexual reproduction, as is the budding of yeast cells and the generation of clones by runners in plants. Many plants and fungi are capable of reproducing both sexually and asexually, as are some animals, such as sponges and aphids.
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  1. The process by which cells and organisms produce other cells and organisms of the same kind. &diamf3; The reproduction of organisms by the union of male and female reproductive cells (gametes) is called sexual reproduction. Many unicellular and most multicellular organisms reproduce sexually. &diamf3; Reproduction in which offspring are produced by a single parent, without the union of reproductive cells, is called asexual reproduction. The fission (splitting) of bacterial cells and the cells of multicellular organisms by mitosis is a form of asexual reproduction, as is the budding of yeast cells and the generation of clones by runners in plants. Many plants and fungi are capable of reproducing both sexually and asexually, as are some animals, such as sponges and aphids.
  2. Something made by reproducing; copy, close imitation, duplication, etc.
  3. A copy of something, as in a piece of art; a duplicate.
phony
A person who is not what he or she pretends to be; one who deceives, dissembles, is insincere, etc.; fraud
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  1. A person who is not what he or she pretends to be; one who deceives, dissembles, is insincere, etc.; fraud
  2. A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
  3. A fraudulent or dishonest person.
counterfeit
Something that so closely resembles something else as to mislead
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  1. Something that so closely resembles something else as to mislead
  2. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
  3. 1590Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene Book III, canto VIII:
fake
Anything or anyone not genuine; fraud; counterfeit
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  1. Anything or anyone not genuine; fraud; counterfeit
  2. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
  3. (Sports) A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
phony
A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
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  1. A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
  2. A fraudulent or dishonest person.
  3. A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
sham
A person who is not what he or she pretends to be; fraud; impostor
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  1. A person who is not what he or she pretends to be; fraud; impostor
  2. A counterfeit; something that is not what it seems or appears to be; a fake; a person pretending to be something or someone other than who she really is. A counterfeit; something that is not what it seems or appears to be; a fake; a person pretending to be something or someone other than who she really is. adj. Deceitful or dishonest.
  3. An imitation that is meant to deceive; counterfeit
Find another word for forgery. In this page you can discover 22 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for forgery, like: imitation, copy, imposture, cheat, counterfeit, fake, fabrication, sham, imposition, fraud and hoax.

Sentence Examples

  • The letter of Macarius, therefore, if a forgery, must be a very early one.'

  • There is absolutely no motive for a forgery in the contents of the epistle.

  • An oration pridie quam in exsilium iret is certainly a forgery, as also a letter to Octavian.

  • The suspicion of some earlier scholars that the Praefatio and the Versus might be a modern forgery is refuted by the occurrence of the word vitteas, which is the Old Saxon fittea, corresponding to the Old English fitt, which means a "canto" of a poem.

  • A few days later Nuncomar was thrown into prison on a charge of forgery preferred by a private prosecutor, tried before the supreme court sitting in bar, found guilty by a jury of Englishmen and sentenced to be hanged.

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