Crossword clues for forgeries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forgery \For"ger*y\, n.; pl. Forgeries. [Cf. F. forgerie.]
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The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.]
Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear.
--Milton. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.
--Bouvier.-
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.
These are the forgeries of jealously.
--Shak.The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century.
--Waterland.Syn: Counterfeit; Forgery.
Usage: Counterfeit is chiefly used of imitations of coin, or of paper money, or of securities depending upon pictorial devices and engraved designs for identity or assurance of genuineness. Forgery is more properly applied to making a false imitation of an instrument depending on signatures to show genuineness and validity.
--Abbott.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of forgery English)
Usage examples of "forgeries".
Sung forgeries of Shang ritual vessels copied aspects of the Shang design quite accurately, but they garbled the underlying philosophical statements every time.
Each time I tracked down the rumors, the bronzes were either forgeries or genuine Han or sometimes even Shang.
A museum participated in the X-raying just as a way to prove that copies and forgeries couldn't make it past their experts.
Any man who condemned those pages as forgeries on first glance didn’t deserve to have them.
I can’t wait to hear your explanation of your grandfather’s forgeries of Renaissance illuminations over pages cut from the Book of the Learned and sold to people who trusted the House of Warrick’s reputation.
Each person knew where the forgeries ultimately came from: the House of Warrick.
Linking you to a trade in forgeries – much less the creation of those forgeries – would have killed the sale and left Cleary a much less wealthy woman.
You can put whatever face you want on it, but I would suggest you say that you have reason to suspect the pages are forgeries and you’re willing to buy them back for their most recent purchase price since the error was originally yours in identifying them as valid pages.
The forgeries were prominently displayed on movable panels just in front of the stage.
The forgeries were a subject she would love to avoid, but didn't see any graceful —or even moderately polite—way of doing so.
How are we supposed to find any true Martens hidden in Grandfather's forgeries unless we have some real Martens to work with?
I know that they're forgeries, however, because I remember that I didn't have my own fountain pen with me when I signed the first of those IOU's.
That will brand his IOU's as forgeries and his whole statement as a lie, fabricated out of whole cloth.
Of course, if they are forgeries, which remains to be proven, I can then recover the seventy-five hundred dollars from Grieb's estate.
If you can prove they are forgeries, then, on the strength of the proof you've made, I can recover from Grieb's estate.