Crossword-Solution: FORGERIES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Forgeries | pl. | of Forgery |
We have 4 clues for the answer “FORGERIES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Art world concerns | 1 answer |
| Criminal offenses. | 1 answer |
| Illegal copies | 1 answer |
| Certain works of art. | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FORGERIES (5)
This was probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeries perpetrated on USENET (which has negligible security against them), because the notion that USENET might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time.
Cruncher, after surveying him in silence until he came to the blotting-paper stage, remarked: “I suppose they’ll be trying Forgeries this morning?” “Treason!” “That’s quartering,” said Jerry.
You might get one sharp enough to be suspicious if given enough original standards to compare with our forgeries." The waiter never came back to bother them.
Who he was is a mystery, unsolved by any historian; his papers were evidently forgeries—that, and his final flight, appear to indicate that he was an agent of the Royalists, for either the King or the Duke of York was heard to say, ‘That, if he might have his wish, he would have them all turn rebels and go to arms.’ {94b} Upon the 18th day of the month they left Carsphairn and marched onwards.
When de Banville revives a forgotten form of verse—and he has already had the honour of reviving the ballade—he does it in the spirit of a workman choosing a good tool wherever he can find one, and not at all in that of the dilettante, who seeks to renew bygone forms of thought and make historic forgeries.
Quotes with FORGERIES (3)
We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls
Whether or not the fame of Gilgamesh of Uruk had reached the Aegean — and the idea is attractive — there can be no doubt that it was as great as that of any other hero. In time his name became so much a household word that jokes and forgeries were fathered onto it, as in a popular fraud that survives on eighth-century B.C. tablets which perhaps themselves copy an older text. This is a letter supposed to be written by Gilgamesh to some other king, with commands that he should …
That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1949–2008).