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Another word for forgery

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Noun

  1. A fraudulent imitation

      1. Something false or empty that is purported to be genuine:
      2. Deceitfulness or pretense:
      3. One who claims to be what he or she is not; an impostor or fraud:
      1. Not genuine or real; sham or counterfeit:
      2. Spurious, deceptive, or false:
      3. Fraudulent, deceitful, or dishonest:
      1. Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.
      2. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
      3. A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
      1. To make an imitation or copy of (something), usually with the intent to defraud:
      2. To make a pretense of; feign:
      3. To carry on a deception; dissemble.
    See also:

    true

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Another word for forgery

Noun
      1. Not genuine or real; sham or counterfeit:
      2. Spurious, deceptive, or false:
      3. Fraudulent, deceitful, or dishonest:
      1. The act of reproducing or the condition or process of being reproduced.
      2. Something reproduced, especially in the faithfulness of its resemblance to the form and elements of the original:
      3. The sexual or asexual process by which organisms generate new individuals of the same kind; procreation.
      1. the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
      2. knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
      3. showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong
      1. An act intended to deceive or trick.
      2. Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means.
      3. To deceive or cheat by using a hoax.
      1. A deception practiced in order to induce another to give up possession of property or surrender a right.
      2. A piece of trickery; a trick.
      3. One that defrauds; a cheat.
      1. The act of imposing or the condition of being imposed.
      2. Something imposed, such as a tax, an undue burden, or a fraud.
      3. A burdensome or unfair demand, as upon someone's time:
      1. Something false or empty that is purported to be genuine:
      2. Deceitfulness or pretense:
      3. One who claims to be what he or she is not; an impostor or fraud:
      1. a fabricating or being fabricated; construction; manufacture
      2. a fabricated thing; esp., a falsehood, false excuse, etc.
      1. Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.
      2. One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.
      3. A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.
      1. To make an imitation or copy of (something), usually with the intent to defraud:
      2. To make a pretense of; feign:
      3. To carry on a deception; dissemble.
      1. To deceive by trickery; swindle:
      2. To deprive by trickery; defraud:
      3. To mislead; fool:
      1. The act or instance of engaging in deception under an assumed name or identity.
      1. An imitation or reproduction of an original; a duplicate:
      2. A file that has the same data as another file:
      3. One example of a printed text, picture, film, or recording:
      1. The act or an instance of imitating:
      2. Something derived or copied from an original, often in an inferior way:
      3. Repetition of a phrase or melody often with variations in key, rhythm, and voice.
    Antonyms:
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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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