Crossword clues for counterfeiter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Counterfeiter \Coun"ter*feit`er\ (-f?t`?r), n.
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One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger.
The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters.
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One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses.
Counterfeiters of devotion.
--Sherwood.
Wiktionary
n. A person who counterfeits
WordNet
n. someone who makes copies illegally [syn: forger]
Usage examples of "counterfeiter".
This was a colossal combination of robbers, horse-thieves, negro-stealers, and counterfeiters, engaged in business along the river some fifty or sixty years ago.
It analyzes documents for authenticity, and its fight against fake cash is still quite lively (especially since the skilled counterfeiters of Medellin, Columbia have gotten into the act).
They are ample proof of what I have long known, but have hitherto been unable to substantiate, that Ali Bagh is a counterfeiter, the chief of a large band.
Nothing can be more mournful than these pictured reprisals, upon a pack of cards, in the days of the stake for roasting contrabandists, and the cauldron for boiling counterfeiters.
While Blum and the counterfeiters stood in sullen silence, the four boys learned that Ken had called the chief just minutes after Fenton Hardy had left in the police launch in pursuit of Paul Blum.
Contrast with these the arbiters of their lives and deaths, the potentates of the same quarter who issue the warrants of arrest against them, who pen them in to speculate on them, and who revel at their expense and before their eyes: these consist of the members of the revolutionary committee of the Croix-Rouge, the eighteen convicted rogues and debauchees previously described,[152] ex-cab-drivers, porters, cobblers, street messengers, stevedores, bankrupts, counterfeiters, former or future jail-birds, all clients of the police or alms-house riff-raff.
They paid the counterfeiters by bank transfer of money to a numbered account in Liechtenstein after taking their cut.
The Second Deputy Minister of Finance, that's who, and I rather suspect that his position as king of counterfeiters is temporary.
Who is using a counterfeiter and a soldier of fortune and swindling honest American bankers and business men as no man crook--you seem to like that word--crook--could ever do?
Only from that band of counterfeiters of occult documents could such an endless series of debasements spring, from the Stella Matutina to the satanic churches of Aleister Crowley, who called up demons to win the favors of certain gentlemen devoted to the vice anglais.