Tricky vs Counterfeit - What's the difference?
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hard to deal with, complicated
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adept at using deception
False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
Inauthentic.
Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
* Shakespeare
A non-genuine article; a fake.
*c.1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV part I, Act II, scene 4:
* Macaulay
One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
(obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
* William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
* 1590 Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene Book III, canto VIII:
(obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
* c.1597 William Shakespeare, Henry IV part I, Act V, scene 4
To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
(obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
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(obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
* Oliver Goldsmith, The Village Schoolmaster
Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.
As adjectives the difference between tricky and counterfeit
is that tricky is hard to deal with, complicated while counterfeit is false, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.As a noun counterfeit is
a non-genuine article; a fake.As a verb counterfeit is
to falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.tricky
English
Adjective
(er)- They were in a tricky situation.
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- A tricky salesman can sell anything.
See also
* sneakycounterfeit
English
Adjective
(-)- This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.
- counterfeit sympathy
- an arrant counterfeit rascal
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit .
- Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
- Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens.
- Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself.
- I fear thou art another counterfeit ; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
Verb
(en verb)- to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
- to counterfeit the voice of another person
- Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.