forgery

IPA: fˈɔrdʒɝi

The act of forging metal into shape.
The 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.
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
(archaic) An invention, creation.

Examples of "forgery" in Sentences

Then, again, the word forgery began to look black in our vocabulary.
I didn't expect it would also provide training in forgery, but it did.
IMO TCP RST forgery is only a good idea for actual security-related blockages.
But it is certainly the case that the word forgery was whispered by more than one pair of lips.
Could they not see at once the crude hand of a novice in that composition they called a forgery?
His talent for forgery is exploited by a group of unscrupulous art critics and businessmen who hope to profit by passing his works off as original old masters.
I learned a few valuable lessons working on that show: a facsimile intends to deceive legally, an unacknowledged facsimile can easily become a forgery, and an undetected forgery is an original.
Martian thinks this is polite language, but the word forgery is much more concise and to the point, and he finds an excellent example of this described by Joseph McCabe in "The Forgery of the Old Testament."