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noun
Counterfeiter  n.  
1.
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."
2.
One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses. "Counterfeiters of devotion."






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"Counterfeiter" Quotes from Famous Books



... Germans lucidity is an objection, logic a refutation. Schopenhauer rigorously pointed out the dishonesty of Hegel's and Schelling's age,—rigorously, but also unjustly, for he himself, the pessimistic old counterfeiter, was in no way more "honest" than his more famous contemporaries. But let us leave morality out of the question, Hegel is a matter of taste.{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} And not only of German but of European taste!{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} A taste which Wagner ...
— The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. • Friedrich Nietzsche.

... building,—Headman's Block, The College of Forgery, Counterfeiter's Exchange, The Cracksman's Crib, (a new and elegant hotel), Mutiny Row, and many other prominent buildings ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 39., Saturday, December 24, 1870. • Various

... exquisitely prepared plates and printed on a special sort of paper. This paper has numberless little silk threads running through it which not only toughen it and prevent it from tearing but also make it almost impossible to duplicate. A counterfeiter would have to go to a deal of trouble to ...
— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett

... derivation of this word from the name of a certain Borghese, said to have been a notorious counterfeiter of bank-notes. But is it not more probably a corruption of bagasse, which, as applied to the pressed sugarcane, means simply something worthless? The word originally meant a worthless woman, whence our "baggage" in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

... which roused the whole city. From out of the parish prison appeared another Italian, a counterfeiter, who had recently been arrested, and who proved to be a Pinkerton detective "planted" among the Mafiosi for a purpose. Larubio had been a counterfeiter in Sicily—it was in the government prison that he had learned his cobbler's trade; and out ...
— The Net • Rex Beach



Words linked to "Counterfeiter" :   cheat, counterfeit, deceiver, paperhanger, coiner, trickster, cheater, slicker, beguiler, forger



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