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Counterfeiter   Listen
noun
Counterfeiter  n.  
1.
One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. "The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters."
2.
One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses. "Counterfeiters of devotion."





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"Counterfeiter" Quotes from Famous Books



... lucidity is an objection, logic a refutation. Schopenhauer rigorously pointed out the dishonesty of Hegel's and Schelling's age,—rigorously, but also unjustly, for he himself, the pessimistic old counterfeiter, was in no way more "honest" than his more famous contemporaries. But let us leave morality out of the question, Hegel is a matter of taste.{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} And not only of German but of European taste!{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} A taste which Wagner understood!—which ...
— The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. • Friedrich Nietzsche.


Words linked to "Counterfeiter" :   trickster, forger, coiner, deceiver, cheater, slicker, beguiler


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