Forgery vs Trumpery - What's the difference?
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The act of forging metal into shape.
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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.
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*: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.
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
(lb) An invention, creation.
worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
nonsense
* South
(obsolete) deceit; fraud
gaudy but of no value
* 1954 , Anthony Buckeridge, According to Jennings
Forgery is a related term of trumpery.
As nouns the difference between forgery and trumpery
is that forgery is the act of forging metal into shape while trumpery is worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.As an adjective trumpery is
gaudy but of no value.forgery
English
(wikipedia forgery)Noun
(forgeries)Synonyms
* counterfeit * fakeDerived terms
* forgertrumpery
English
Noun
(trumperies)- (Prospero, to Ariel)
- This was well done, my bird.
- Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
- The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither
- For stale to catch these thieves.
- Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world.
- (Grenewey)
Adjective
(-)- “Of all the trumpery moonshine!” Mr Wilkins exploded. “What do you think you're playing at, Jennings!”