forgery
noun, plural for·ger·ies.
Origin of forgery
Related Words for forgery
falsification, imposition, cheat, imposture, pseudo, phony, twin, imitation, fake, carbon, copy, fabrication, sham, fraudulence, bogus, imitating, lookalikeExamples from the Web for forgery
Contemporary Examples of forgery
But Colette sees a more serious problem with forgery, beyond the distorting effect forgery has on the art market.
On the other hand, if the text is a forgery, then it is a better forgery than previously thought.
On the one hand, tests designed to prove that the text is a forgery failed to establish its inauthenticity.
The single test that would definitively prove whether or not GJW is a forgery would also destroy it.
Then again … as I said, for a forgery to deceive at all, it has to preserve a great many features of a genuine object.
Historical Examples of forgery
I was arrested for forgery, tried, found guilty, and transported for life.
Henry DunbarM. E. Braddon
He had heard the story of the forgery hinted at, but he had never heard its details.
Henry DunbarM. E. Braddon
It never occurred to me then that it might have been intended to look like a forgery.
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
The excellence of the forgery may be fairly adduced as an argument that it is not a forgery at all.
MenexenusPlato
Why, that must be the secretary who was suspected of forgery at the Embassy in London, and got dismissed.
The Eternal CityHall Caine