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Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who forges, forms, or makes; specifically, a smith; a wright.
- noun One who makes something by false imitation; a falsifier; specifically, one who makes or issues a counterfeit document; a person guilty of forgery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
- noun Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Person who
falsifies documents withintent todefraud , eg, to create a false will. - noun Person who
forges metals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes copies illegally
- noun someone who operates a forge
Etymologies
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Examples
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He noted the horror of Mr. Harley at the term forger; he observed Mr. Harley's growing sense of helplessness as he, Storri, set forth how Mr. Harley lay in the toils.
The President A novel Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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But as Angle pointed out, The first concern of every forger is to secure old paper, and on the whole it is easily accomplished.
An Atlantic Scandal 2006
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A cheque forger is certainly a criminal and deserves to be punished, but does he need to be locked up in Kingston at monumental cost, just putting in time and reflecting on how he got caught?
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Australian Coin forger’s Charlotte Medal fetches a pretty penny
Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci : Coin Collecting News 2008
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A forger is the one criminal most hated in Wall Street, and as soon as it was announced that he was one, the stranger was instantly surrounded and captured.
Halsey & Co. or, The Young Bankers and Speculators H. K. Shackleford
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The banker, however, was a more important person than the clergyman, and his evident anxiety to lay hands on the forger was a thing not to be overlooked.
The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley
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Grauert, for whom the forger is a Frankish subject, shares the view of Hergenröther, i.e. the forger had in mind a defence of the new Western Empire from the attacks of the Byzantines.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The most difficult signature for the forger is the clear, plain, copybook-modelled autograph.
The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents Douglas Blackburn 1893
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Whenever I've heard those stories about chaps who are brilliant forgers of art, who can copy a Da Vinci or a Rembrandt so perfectly that that even Mrs Da Vinci or a random art expert couldn't tell the difference, they always say that the forger was a brilliant artist himself.
Kottu 2008
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a runaway forger, which is not pleasant anyway, and if you doubt it, only try; but needs must when the old boy drives.
Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
Related Words
synonyms (85)
Words with the same meaning
- Artful Dodger
- Casanova
- Don Juan
- Hephaestus
- Machiavel
- Machiavelli
- Machiavellian
- Vulcan
- Wayland
- actor
- ape
- bamboozler
- befuddler
- beguiler
- charmer
- coin-clipper
- coiner
- conformist
- copier
- copycat
- copyist
- counterfeiter
- cuckoo
- deceiver
- deluder
- dissembler
- dissimulator
- dodger
- double-dealer
- duper
- echo
- echoer
- echoist
- enchanter
- entrancer
- fabricator
- faker
- falsifier
- farrier
- fooler
- gay deceiver
- hoaxer
- hypnotizer
- hypocrite
- imitator
- impersonator
- impostor
- jilt
- jilter
- joker
- jokester
- kidder
- leg-puller
- mesmerizer
- metalworker
- mime
- mimer
- mimic
- mimicker
- minter
- mintmaster
- misleader
- mocker
- mockingbird
- moneyer
- monkey
- parrot
- phony
- plagiarist
- plagiarizer
- playactor
- poll-parrot
- polly
- polly-parrot
- poseur
- practical joker
- ragger
- role-player
- seducer
- sheep
- simulator
- smith
- spoofer
- tease
- teaser
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