(adv.) Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.
(adv.) Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin.
(adv.) Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist.
(n.) That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
(n.) That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit.
(n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
(v. t.) To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person.
(v. t.) To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
(v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
(v. i.) To make counterfeits.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
(2) The lobbying firms' claims about counterfeiting have been roundly rejected by the Trading Standards Institute, which claims that tobacco products are already easy to counterfeit and that it is not convinced by arguments that suggest the introduction of plain packaging will lead to an increase in counterfeiting.
(3) Many arrive on donkeys from Turkey, but there is no way of knowing which products are counterfeit and which are real.
(4) The first new £1 coin since 1983 is an attempt to end counterfeiting.
(5) He focuses on counterfeit and substandard medicines and the role of intellectual property and trade law on access to medicines in less developed countries.
(6) Look,” Kasich said as he celebrated his big win in his home state of Ohio, “this is all I got.” At this point, he held open his suit jacket to reveal no counterfeit watches, concealed weapons or wads of cash.
(7) In June 2012, the month that Butt was sentenced to 15 years in jail, the DSI smashed another major counterfeiting syndicate, this one accused of issuing some 3,000 falsified passports and visas over the five years of its existence, two of them to Iranians convicted of carrying out a series of botched bomb attacks in Bangkok in February 2012, supposedly aimed at Israeli diplomats .
(8) The Royal Mint says: "Under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 it is an offence to knowingly pass on a counterfeit £1 coin."
(9) She suggested that the US authorities were guilty either of “a technically incompetent misinterpretation of the facts” or had been fooled by a “counterfeit in order to frame my company”.
(10) In a further ruse to try to beat the counterfeiters, it has “milled” edges, with grooves on alternate sides.
(11) Yahoo plan Last month Alibaba said it had removed 90m listings for goods that might have infringed trademarks and had spent $161m in the past two years on blocking counterfeit goods and improving consumer protection.
(12) An anti-counterfeiting group said on Friday it was suspending Alibaba’s membership following an uproar by some companies that view the Chinese e-commerce giant as the world’s largest marketplace for fakes .
(13) The act, which became effective on July 21, 1988, is intended to reduce public health risks from adulterated, misbranded, and counterfeit drug products that enter the marketplace through drug diversion.
(14) Hill's lawyer complains that as a result the prisoner is left "with no means for determining whether the drugs for his lethal injection are safe and will reliably perform their function, or if they are tainted, counterfeited, expired or compromised in some other way."
(15) ONdigital eventually ceased trading amid a wave of counterfeiting by pirates, leaving the lucrative pay-TV field clear for Sky.
(16) , in which cartoon eastern European gangsters drool over the financial possibilities of regulation – although anti-counterfeiting measures can easily be incorporated into plain packets.
(17) "Counterfeit £1 coins are not genuine currency and no value can therefore be given for them," says the Mint.
(18) But, there's no doubt counterfeit coins and notes can seriously damage small businesses.
(19) It is putting out a call for members to help support the fight against Drip, pushing its participation in the defeat of the " snoopers' charter " and Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) as evidence of what can be accomplished.
(20) While the Royal Mint assures us that replacing one coin with another is not as expensive as we might think, this may be because much of the additional bill – £45m as someone estimated on Radio 4's Today programme (which eerily recalls the number of counterfeit pounds thought to be in circulation) – will, it seems, be paid by business, and by us.
Phoney
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The phrase “currency war” speaks to a seemingly phoney battle between the world’s major trading powers over the price of exports.
(2) Criticism of the European Union has for too long been dominated by a phoney chauvinistic Euroscepticism that ignores the real interests that have driven its development.
(3) We are still in the midst of the uneasy period of phoney war before the cuts actually bite, but we now know what's coming: the deepest and quickest reductions in public spending since the 1920s – which, according to an under-reported quote from David Cameron , will not be reversed, even when our economic circumstances improve (2 August, at an event in Birmingham: "Should we cut things now and go back later and try and restore them later?
(4) Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phoney tits and everything.
(5) But surely the problem is not the display of antipathy - it is the phoney feel of it all, as opposing parties score points like public school debaters.
(6) This month the phoney war over Euro membership will get slightly more real.
(7) In his speech at the party's spring conference in Birmingham, Cable accused the Conservatives of engaging in a "phoney war over cuts" that would affect millions of lives.
(8) Sure, activists are interested in how much the candidate can raise, but not how much they can raise here.” Even the politicians’ harshest critics concede there is little chance of being able to inflict meaningful punishment on phoney primary candidates, preferring instead to see any FEC appeal as a symbolic attempt to draw attention to how broken the system is.
(9) Other balderdash included Nick Clegg's phoney claim : "As a proportion of this country's wealth, this government will be spending more in public spending at the end of this parliament after all these cuts, than Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were when they came into power."
(10) Glade discovered that Whittamore's ultimate source was a civilian worker at Wandsworth police station, south London, Paul Marshall, who was logging phoney 999 calls in order to justify accessing the computer records of public figures who were of interest to newspapers.
(11) The pair met in London, but the phoney deal fell through.
(12) In a foreword to what Open Britain calls the “Brexit contract”, the MPs write: “The phoney war is over.
(13) He also attacked the Tories too for waging a "phoney war" about when to make cuts and claimed neither they nor the government had the "courage to come up with the details of the cuts we will need in the years ahead to tackle Britain's deficit".
(14) Caspar Field: With Nintendo now clearly in another market segment, this is a phoney war, and I think both PS4 and Xbox One will sell well.
(15) Sly Stallone is a real athlete; he gets stuck in.” But he’s riled by the number of phoneys he sees around him.
(16) Mr Cameron has tried to spin out the phoney war on Europe for as long as possible, hoping not to provoke his backbenchers unnecessarily and trying to persuade the more reasonable ones to accept his approach.
(17) At first, when she came home, there was the "phoney war".
(18) At some point, maybe we should all sit and have a think about what kind of politicians we actually want – because right now it feels like a choice between the careerist and the phoney clown.
(19) Perhaps young people who did not know the cold war threat of nuclear annihilation are more susceptible to the phoney scaremongering of today.
(20) "In a sense, that will be the end of this phoney war," added Butcher.