Deception, falsification, imposture; a forgery, counterfeit. Obsolete or archaic.

quasi-concrete. An imitation, counterfeit.

concrete. Something forged, counterfeited, or fabricated; a spurious production.

figurative and in figurative contexts.

Phrases. man of straw: (a) a person or thing compared to a straw image; a counterfeit, sham, ‘dummy’; similarly, a face of straw, etc.; (b) an…

A false or spurious imitation. A writing, etc. that is not genuine; a forgery.

The result or product of imitating; a copy, an artificial likeness; a thing made to look like something else, which it is not; a counterfeit.

The action of imitating a person or thing; (concrete) something which deceptively resembles something else; an imitation, counterfeit, sham; a…

figurative and in figurative contexts. Flimsy or unsubstantial things; a thing of a flimsy or unsubstantial nature. Cf. sense B. 2.

Deceptive modification.

A thing (or person) which is pretended to be what it is not.

A method or means of defrauding or deceiving; a fraudulent contrivance; in modern colloquial use, a spurious or deceptive thing.

Something that is intended to be mistaken for something else, or that is not really what it purports to be; a spurious imitation, a counterfeit.

The result of this; an adulterated condition or product. Also: an adulterating substance.

Something that is false. A counterfeit, sham. rare.

Something worthless or fake; counterfeit money; smuggled goods. Cf. duffer, n.1 1, dud, n.1 5.

= sham, n.1 adj.

A spurious imitation.

a razor made to sell to Hodge: see Peter Pindar's Wks. (1794) I. 151; hence, in Carlyle, anything made to sell; a sham.

figurative. A thing that is false, counterfeit, cheap, or worthless; spec. something that appears valuable but is actually cheap or tawdry. Also…

Nothing; base money; something worthless.

Something that has been copied from older material or other sources; a rehash. Now also: something that has been created by combining disparate…

An imitation; feigning, pretence. rare.

The practice of faking something; deception, trickery, fraud.

Originally U.S. Something which has been faked; esp. something which has been counterfeited or forged, or which has been fraudulently modified in…

The quality or fact of being bogus; spuriousness, falseness. Occasionally also: a thing that is bogus or sham.

The state or condition of being spurious; a spurious thing or production. Also in combinations.

A counterfeit, a forgery; (also) a dishonoured cheque.

U.S. slang. A thing of poor quality; something worthless, a ‘dud’; a counterfeit or fake. Now rare.

Something made up; a fabrication.

A ‘bodgie’ thing; something shoddy, unreliable, or of dubious origin.