Synonyms:
forgery
Meaning: criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud
Synonyms:
counterfeit, forgery
Meaning: a copy that is represented as the original
Usage examples
'A forgery.
It may be a forgery.
'A forgery?' he said.
"A fine forgery, if I do say so myself," he mused.
Forgery is dishonest because its object is to deceive.
'It was a forgery,' muttered Mr Waller, sitting down heavily.
"Who will employ a bookkeeper, or even a clerk who has been guilty of forgery?"
The difference between fiction and forgery is this: the former is, what it claims to be; the latter is a lie parading as a truth.
If the Gospel was a novel, no one would object to its mythology, but pretending to be historical, it must square its claims with the facts, or be branded as a forgery.