Definitions for forgery

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forgery for·ger·y

Spelling: [fawr-juh-ree, fohr-]

IPA: /ˈfɔr dʒə ri, ˈfoʊr-/

Forgery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in forgery (efgorry).

Definitions for forgery

noun

1. the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing whether or not it is also the forger's name.
2. the production of a spurious work that is claimed to be genuine, as a coin, a painting, or the like.
3. something, as a coin, a work of art, or a writing, produced by forgery.
4. an act of producing something forged.
5. Archaic. invention; artifice.

Origin of forgery

First recorded in 1565-75; forge¹ + -ery

Examples for forgery

The single test that would definitively prove whether or not GJW is a forgery would also destroy it.

On the one hand, tests designed to prove that the text is a forgery failed to establish its inauthenticity.

It never occurred to me then that it might have been intended to look like a forgery.

Then again … as I said, for a forgery to deceive at all, it has to preserve a great many features of a genuine object.

Why, that must be the secretary who was suspected of forgery at the Embassy in London, and got dismissed.

I was arrested for forgery, tried, found guilty, and transported for life.

On the other hand, if the text is a forgery, then it is a better forgery than previously thought.

He had heard the story of the forgery hinted at, but he had never heard its details.

But Colette sees a more serious problem with forgery, beyond the distorting effect forgery has on the art market.

The excellence of the forgery may be fairly adduced as an argument that it is not a forgery at all.