counterfeit
adjective
made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; not genuine; forged.
counterfeiter
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a word derived from
counterfeit.
Example Sentences
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"These responses are impossible to duplicate, as long as the glue interface is destroyed by a counterfeiter," Han says.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2024
Those documents, Wilding discovered, had been given to him by Tobia Nicotra — a notorious 20th-century counterfeiter in Milan.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
Lustig was a famous counterfeiter, but it's said his biggest swindle came in 1925, when he had documentation arranged identifying him as the "Deputy Director General of the Ministère de Postes et Télégraphes."
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2022
Based on Jennifer Vogel's memoir "Flim-Flam Man", the film centres around her relationship with her father John, a petty criminal turned counterfeiter.
From Reuters ● Aug. 19, 2021
It wouldn’t have mattered anyway. 5-alpha-reductase deficiency syndrome is a skillful counterfeiter.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
