Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: forged
IPA transcription: [f'ɔɹdʒd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bad, forged
    Meaning: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill"
Usage examples
  • Never since the day of the discovery of the forged bills had that man entered the banking-house.
  • "Dine sparingly and sup more sparingly still; for the health of the whole body is forged in the workshop of the stomach.
  • The Frate tells us we shall get Pisa again, and I hold with the Frate; but I should be glad to know how the promise is to be fulfilled, if we don't get plenty of good weapons forged?
  • The crowd hung silently on the track. "Lu-Lu" and "Mascot" were neck and neck, getting in splendid work. Half-way round the course "Lu-Lu" forged half a neck ahead, and her backers went mad.
  • It was exactly the kind of will Julius wanted. Michael was simply his instrument, and Durham shrewdly suspected that from some knowledge of the forged check Beryl had obtained this extraordinary influence.
  • Here, to make their peace with the authorities, they told all they knew of the position and purposes of their countrymen at Fort Caroline, and thus was forged the thunderbolt soon to be hurled against the wretched little colony.
  • Go and see the president of the bank which paid the forged checks. Get him to admit the bank's liability, and then say to him that Mr. Edison does not think the bank should suffer because he happened to have a dishonest clerk in his employ.