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Answer for the clue "Counterfeit ", 5 letters:
false
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" [ant: true ] arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" [syn: mistaken ] erroneous and usually accidental; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
False \False\, adv. Not truly; not honestly; falsely. ``You play me false.'' --Shak.
Usage examples of false.
The Tusk tells us that there is no greater abomination than the False Prophet.
We have received information, from what appears to be a very reliable source, that you have obtained the Aboriginal scholarship under false pretences.
If a man examines only the external he sees only what he has committed to deed, and that he has not murdered or committed adultery or stolen or borne false witness, and so on.
The Word and, in particular, the precepts of the Decalog are the means with those who acknowledge all kinds of murder, adultery, theft and false witness to be sins.
But pray, listen: all human beings who are born, however numerous and of whatever religion, can be saved if only they acknowledge God and live according to the precepts of the Decalog, which forbid committing murder, adultery, theft, and false witness because to do such things is contrary to religion and therefore contrary to God.
Once a religion is established in a nation the Lord leads that nation according to the precepts and tenets of its own religion, and He has provided that there should be precepts in every religion like those in the Decalog, that God should be worshiped, His name not be profaned, a holy day be observed, that parents be honored, murder, adultery and theft not be committed, and false witness not be spoken.
They know and perceive, therefore, that murder, adultery, theft and false witness are sins and accordingly shun them on that account.
Dear as his daughter might become to him, all he dared to ask of Heaven was that she might be restored to that truer self which lay beneath her false and adventitious being.
Who, soothed to false repose by the fanning plumes above And the music-stirring motion of its soft and busy feet, Dream visions of aereal joy, and call the monster, Love, And wake, and find the shadow Pain, as he whom now we greet.
Then the old woman rendring out like sighes, began to speake in this sort : My daughter take a good heart unto you, and bee not afeared at feigned and strange visions and dreams, for as the visions of the day are accounted false and untrue, so the visions of the night doe often change contrary.
Can change with its false times and tides, Like hope and terror,-- Alas for Love!
The absurd, ugly fang disappeared without a trace, and the albugo on his eye proved false.
Gillen had been the main prosecutor in the Weinberger case, but he had to withdraw because years before he had attended one of the meetings at which the defense secretary allegedly made false statements.
There is a secret method, known only to you, that allows you to tell the true Alvarado from the false.
The court looked to call its new knight Ancel, for that he had once served in the kitchens, and no one gave any more thought to his naming than that, for the days of the False Janiffer were long passed.