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Over the following months, the real story began to leak out: Mr. Kujau was a serial art forger based in Stuttgart who specialized in fabricating Nazi-era memorabilia.—Clay Risen, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2024 The Christophers is a dark comedy about the estranged children of a once-famous artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death.—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024 While painting a Nuenen man, the forger missed a long vertical stick used by Brabant peasants to carry bundles of wood on their backs.—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024 In the sordid world of professional thieves, con artists, and forgers, the answers are never clear.—Spenser Mestel, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for forger
Word History
Etymology
Middle English forgere, forgeoure, borrowed from Anglo-French forgeur, forger, from forger "to forge entry 2" + -eur, -er-er entry 2
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