How do you use the word "forgery" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "forgery" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "forgery": Those supposed photos of a UFO were finally debunked as an elaborate forgery. Eighteenth century, unless it's a forgery.

Forgery Meaning

/ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe act of forging metal into shape.

nounThe act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.

Sentence Examples

Those supposed photos of a UFO were finally debunked as an elaborate forgery.

Eighteenth century, unless it's a forgery.

It's clear that the passport is a forgery.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

counterfeit

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The expert quickly identified the signature as a ____ because it had many errors.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The art expert quickly realized that the painting was a clever ____ and not an original work.

Word Origin & History

Recorded since 1574; from forge + -ery, from Middle English forgen, via Anglo-Norman forger, from Old French forgier, from Latin fabricārī (“to frame, construct, fabricate”), itself from fabrica (“workshop; construction”), from faber (“workman, smith”). (fake): Compare typologically Russian кова́рный (kovárnyj), кова́рство (kovárstvo), ко́зни (kózni) (akin to кова́ть (kovátʹ), ку́зница (kúznica)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off." — 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

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