Word: counterfeited
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...Janeiro, a woman was arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit U. S. $5 bill. On the bill was written: "A phoney certificate-payable to any real sucker. If you redeem this certificate you are a magician...
...attempted dishonesty." Standard forms: helping the victim ("prospect") to find a pocketbook, whose grateful owner, another thief, persuades him to invest money of his own in a fake gambling or brokerage office; arranging with the victim to cheat another member of the gang at cards or dice; selling counterfeit pawn tickets for supposedly stolen articles; selling shares in smuggled property; selling complicated but useless counterfeiting machines. Confidence men also practice such sidelines as extorting money from homosexuals and, more recently, from income tax violators ("the Federal shake...
...many virgins and too many prostitutes are two sides of the same counterfeit coin...
...familiar with the "glided dogman" which passes as counterfeit coin for real aesthetic criticism. We can readily identify the same type of spurious currency stamped with social and political symbols rapidly passed about from hand to hand by the inhabitants of each conforming world. But if we are to reject this false metal we must be prepared each one of us to mint our own--we must be prepared to make our own judgments of the most intricate and complex situations. To do this with any degree of success requires, indeed, "a rich background and a disciplined insight...
...Counterfeit dimes and quarters are being circulated around the Square in large quantities, it was learned yesterday. Local merchants report that they have been deceived by the authentic look of the coins which are made of pewter...