(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.
Phony
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He said that it was the "poor looking for work" who had paid the price for the "phony 50p rate" because it had made the country "uncompetitive".
(2) "It opens the door for teaching a phony controversy," he said.
(3) In March, he called Trump a “phony” and dissed Trump’s business acumen.
(4) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
(5) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
(6) Over the past eight months, Italian investigators have peeled away layers of false leads, attempted cover-ups, and phony evidence, to build a clearer picture of what happened to Giulio Regeni than at first seemed possible.
(7) Nowhere is this transition better documented than with the phony but ubiquitous rule on when to use "which" and when to use "that".
(8) And I look forward to him being a good president.” The video sought to remind the public of just how big an advocate Bush once was before he took to doling out what Rubio’s campaign dubbed as “phony attacks”.
(9) Romney said “it’s not easy to win,” adding that Trump offered a vision that “connected with the American people in a very powerful way.” His comments are a departure from his stance during the campaign, when Romney was sharply critical of Trump, calling him a “phony” and a fraud whose promises were worthless.
(10) But its activists are as likely to be denounced by Islamists at Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend) for being “phony” Muslims as they are to be denounced by the Telegraph .
(11) Trump had previously made this argument in a series of tweets on Sunday night, alleging “the people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians.
(12) His story starts at Pencey Prep, a prestigious boarding school filled with "phonies", as Holden likes to call them.
(13) Though he has presented a plan that would cut taxes for the richest Americans, in May he said: “ For the wealthy, I think, frankly, it’s going to go up .” Hillary Clinton “She’s a world-class liar; just look at her pathetic email server statements, or her phony landing ... in Bosnia where she said she was under attack and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers.” – 22 June, New York City Clinton has answered questions about the private email server she used as secretary of state with careful, legalistic language.
(14) Despite his phony credentials as a cleric, Guinness felt strongly that the reality of this trust was important.
(15) It was a system in which phony invoices and receipts thrived next to phantom committees and working groups that never met.
(16) "As fewer and fewer readers are able to find their way, amid all the noise and disappointing books and phony reviews, to the work produced by the new generation of this kind of writer, Amazon is well on its way to making writers into the kind of prospectless workers whom its contractors employ in its warehouses, labouring harder for less and less, with no job security, because the warehouses are situated in places where they're the only business hiring," Franzen writes.
(17) During the campaign, Romney delivered searing criticism of Trump’s business acumen, temperament and personal conduct, calling him at turns a “fraud” and a “phony” who would usher in an era of “trickle-down racism”.
(18) She pointed to the fact that both characters love to use the words "goddam", "phony", "crumby", "lousy", "hell", "bastard", and the phrase "kills me".
(19) In November, MEND’s chief executive, Sufyan Gulam Ismail, announced to a Manchester mosque: “We don’t want the government to fob us off with some phony thing called Tell MAMA, which has got a pro-Zionist pretty much heading it, or in a very senior capacity, and is making all sorts of comments we might not agree with when it comes to homosexuality, to be recording Islamophobia.” Tell MAMA’s offence is to try to be consistently anti-racist.
(20) Asked if the letter was phony, Araud replied: "It's not a false letter, it's a false president."