| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A fraudulent imitation: counterfeit, forgery, phony, sham. See TRUE. 2. One who fakes: charlatan, faker, fraud, humbug, impostor, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack. See TRUE. | | VERB: | 1. To behave affectedly or insincerely or take on a false or misleading appearance of: act, counterfeit, dissemble, feign, play-act, pose, pretend, put on, sham, simulate. See HONEST, TRUE. 2. To take on or give a false appearance of: affect2, assume, counterfeit, feign, pretend, put on, sham, simulate. Idioms: make believe. See TRUE. 3. To make a fraudulent copy of: counterfeit, falsify, forge1. See TRUE. 4. To contrive and present as genuine: counterfeit, feign, pretend, simulate. Idioms: make believe, put on an act. See TRUE. 5. To impart a false character to (something) by alteration: doctor, fabricate, falsify, fictionalize, fictionize. See TRUE. 6. To compose or recite without preparation: ad-lib, extemporize, improvise, make up. Idioms: wing it. See PLANNED, PREPARED. | | ADJECTIVE: | Fraudulently or deceptively imitative: bogus, counterfeit, false, fraudulent, phony, sham, spurious, suppositious, supposititious. See TRUE.
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