Counterfeit crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 letters

The answers listed here for “Counterfeit” are not assumptions—they’ve been pulled directly from finished puzzles where solvers encountered and resolved the same clue successfully.

Answer List:

  • FAKE
  • SPURIOUS
  • SHAM
  • DUD
  • BOGUS
  • FORGED
  • FORGE
  • FRAUDULENT
  • PHONY
  • IMITATION
  • FALSIFY
  • FAKED
  • SNIDE
  • FORGERY
  • ERSATZ
  • PHONEY
  • PSEUDO
  • FALSE
  • IMITATIVE
  • IMITATE

Synonyms and Definitions

FAKE

  • Synonyms: bastard, bogus, bull, bullshit, cook, faker, false, falsify, faux, forge, fraud, fudge, imitation, imposter, impostor, juke, manipulate, misrepresent, phoney, phony, postiche, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, simulated, talk through ones hat, wangle

SPURIOUS

  • Synonyms: bastardly, inauthentic, misbegot, misbegotten, specious, unauthentic

SHAM

  • Synonyms: affect, assume, assumed, dissemble, fake, feign, fictitious, fictive, pretend, pretended, put on, simulate

DUD

  • Synonyms: bomb, flop, misfire, turkey, washout

FORGED

  • Synonyms: bad, contrive, devise, excogitate, fashion, form, formulate, hammer, invent, mold, mould, shape, spirt, spurt, work

FORGE

  • Synonyms: smithy

FRAUDULENT

  • Synonyms: deceitful, fallacious

PHONY

  • Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite

IMITATION

  • Synonyms: caricature, impersonation

FALSIFY

  • Synonyms: alter, distort, garble, interpolate, warp

SNIDE

  • Synonyms: sneering, supercilious

ERSATZ

  • Synonyms: substitute

FALSE

  • Synonyms: delusive, mistaken, off-key, sour, untrue

IMITATIVE

  • Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic

IMITATE

  • Synonyms: copy

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