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Answer for the clue "Counterfeit ", 4 letters:
sham

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Sham \Sham\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shammed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shamming .] To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses. Fooled and shammed into a conviction. --L'Estrange. To obtrude by fraud or imposition. [R.] We must have a care that ...

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Usage examples of sham.

The portress was plied with various remedies, and finally underwent a sham operation, crowned with complete success.

But Dad knew how much she would have hated the world to know that the superwoman image of loving wife, devoted mother, shimmering star, had all been a sham.

The park keeps unspoilt its artificial lake, its delusive vistas, its sham ruins, its copied statues and temples.

This is the virile aesthetic and ethic of the extensor muscles -- the bold, buoyant, assertive beliefs and preferences of proud, dominant, unbroken and unterrified conquerors, hunters, and warriors -- and it has small use for the shams and whimperings of the brotherly, affection-slobbering peacemaker and cringer and sentimentalist.

The military threat of these Aethiops is naught but a sham and a bluff.

The linkboy lit two candles and stepped out into the hall, Lewrie following to complete the sham as Margaret began to attend to her makeup and dress.

We took our cue, and a little shamming secured from him tickets which permitted us to take our passage in her.

Tree days after we bring you here de captain he swear you shamming and comed to look at you hisself, but he see that it true and tink you going to die.

The captain came several times and shook me and swore I was shamming, but I only answered in a whisper and seemed as faint as a girl.

And, because I love my sister Shams, I conspire with her in that plan.

You never see Shams or touch her, except with your zab, and it encounters nothing repugnant.

While we lay there, I was conscious of a smeary wet kiss being bestowed upon my belly skin, and then there was a brief rustling sound as Shams scuttled unseen out of the room.

I was relieved to learn that the Princess Shams was not going to be fruitful and multiply her ugliness, thanks to her pomegranate preventive, though by rights I should have been disquieted, because I was thereby participating in one of the most abhorrent and mortal sins a Christian can commit.

Princess Shams should be limited to the enjoyment of any one man alone.

Baghdad, and it was time for me to say farewell to all three of my zina partners: to Moth and Shams and my story-made Shams.