Crossword-Solution: COUNTERFEIT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Counterfeit | adv. | Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed. |
| Counterfeit | adv. | Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin. |
| Counterfeit | adv. | Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist. |
| Counterfeit | n. | That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart. |
| Counterfeit | n. | That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit. |
| Counterfeit | n. | One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat. |
| Counterfeit | v. t. | To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person. |
| Counterfeit | v. t. | To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc. |
| Counterfeit | v. i. | To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend. |
| Counterfeit | v. i. | To make counterfeits. |
We have 72 clues for the answer “COUNTERFEIT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bogus, as bills | 1 answer |
| pinchbeck | 3 answers |
| adulterine | 4 answers |
| brummagem | 8 answers |
| emulation | 10 answers |
| Pseudo | 10 answers |
| slightly derogatory | 14 answers |
| Insinuating | 16 answers |
| Forgery | 20 answers |
| snide | 21 answers |
| Dud | 23 answers |
| MAKE imitation of | 26 answers |
| Facsimile | 27 answers |
| misrepresentation | 29 answers |
| forge | 29 answers |
| Make like | 29 answers |
| forged | 35 answers |
| Act like | 37 answers |
| Fabricate | 39 answers |
| Unauthentic | 43 answers |
| fraudulent | 45 answers |
| Mockery | 45 answers |
| Flash-y? | 47 answers |
| imposture | 47 answers |
| Bogus | 50 answers |
| ADULTERATED | 51 answers |
| spurious | 51 answers |
| diddle | 52 answers |
| Feigned | 52 answers |
| Imitative | 54 answers |
| phoney | 54 answers |
| Falsify | 55 answers |
| Fictitious | 56 answers |
| Pretend | 56 answers |
| Libellous | 56 answers |
| Imitate | 56 answers |
| Construct | 57 answers |
| Showy | 58 answers |
| Simulate | 58 answers |
| Queer | 60 answers |
| Falsification | 60 answers |
| make free with | 62 answers |
| Mock | 63 answers |
| Impersonate | 63 answers |
| ARTIFICIAL ___ | 65 answers |
| slanderous | 66 answers |
| Create | 66 answers |
| Feign | 66 answers |
| sneering | 68 answers |
| Duplicate | 68 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with COUNTERFEIT (5)
This suffix is used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance.
One may palm off the worst counterfeit upon him; if it bears his brand he will smoke it contentedly and never suspect.
There is something so massive, stable, and almost irresistibly imposing in the exterior presentment of established rank and great possessions, that their very existence seems to give them a right to exist; at least, so excellent a counterfeit of right, that few poor and humble men have moral force enough to question it, even in their secret minds.
The sexually explicit T- Shirts would have both made Larry Flynt blush and be banned on Florida beaches, but the counterfeit $1 bills, with George Wash- ington and the pyramid replaced by closeups of impossible oral sexual acts was a compelling gift.
Had he said: “This is not a human being that you see, but the remains of a chemically produced counterfeit created in my own laboratory,” they would have smiled, and either hanged him or put him away with the other criminally insane.
Quotes with COUNTERFEIT (3)
I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thingof starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and timeto fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity. Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process shedsits fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion — one of loyaltyand divine friendship. Ag…
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Independence is counterfeit freedom. We think if we can make all our own choices and do our own thing, we will be free. But the opposite is true. By trying to be independent, we are attempting to take God’s place as the ruler of our lives. We can never succeed at creating happiness because we are the created, not the Creator.
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2017).