forger
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈfɔrdʒər/
- NSFW
:
falsificador
- The police arrested the forger after discovering a stash of fake paintings.
- an art forger
Examples
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He's a known document forger.
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Expert forgers, we know, especially in the world of the arts, are disciplined students.
Academic text (1998) -
Do we know who the forger is?
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We're going to need a really good forger.
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Then the forger was in the presence of the original painting.
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One of those contacts was a local forger.
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Working in secret for six years, the forger perfected his art.
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As the period's most successful forger of historical documents, Iolo was more aware of the untrustworthiness of print than most.
Academic text (2016) -
When forgers work to reproduce these masters' paintings, they work only on the visible surface.
Academic text (1998) -
Enterprising Chinese forgers, using molds from the ruins of ancient kilns, quickly turned out look-alikes.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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7.5
A person who makes fake money or documents to trick people
Antonyms
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Forger also means someone who makes fake documents or art, and this comes from the same idea of forge to 'make' something. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine someone 'making' a false paper the way a smith makes a tool, but in a dishonest way, so a forger is a person who makes fakes.