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English

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
  2. : The time-share deal was a sham.
  3. Trickery, hoaxing.
  4. : A con-man must be skilled in the arts of sham and deceit.
  5. A decorative cover for a pillow.


Derived terms


Translations

  • German: Fälschung , Imitat
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|まがいもの|tr=magaimono|sc=Jpan}}
  • Greek: ψευδής (psevthís)
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|ごまかし|tr=gomakashi|sc=Jpan}}

See also


Verb

{{en-verb|sham|m|ed}}

  1. To deceive, cheat, lie.
  2. : You were shammed by the pool shark.


Translations

  • Greek: {{t+|el|ντροπιάζω|sc=Grek}}
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|ごまかす|tr=gomakasu|sc=Jpan}}

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sham \Sham\, a.
False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham
fight.
[1913 Webster]

They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by
the Athenians. --Jowett
(Thucyd)
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sham \Sham\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shammed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Shamming.]
1. To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false
pretenses.
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Fooled and shammed into a conviction. --L'Estrange.
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2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition. [R.]
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We must have a care that we do not . . . sham
fallacies upon the world for current reason.
--L'Estrange.
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3. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape;
to feign.
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To sham Abram or To sham Abraham, to feign sickness; to
malinger. Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant,
Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sham \Sham\, v. i.
To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.
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Wondering . . . whether those who lectured him were
such fools as they professed to be, or were only
shamming. --Macaulay.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sham \Sham\ (sh[a^]m), n. [Originally the same word as shame,
hence, a disgrace, a trick. See Shame, n.]
1. That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or
device that deludes and disappoints; a make-believe;
delusion; imposture; humbug. "A mere sham." --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
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Believe who will the solemn sham, not I. --Addison.
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2. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
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Pillow sham, a covering to be laid on a pillow.
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WordNet sham
adj : adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed
cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive
sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish
voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious,
fictive, pretended, put on]
n 1: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
[syn: fake, postiche]
2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor,
pretender, fake, faker, fraud, shammer, pseudo,
pseud, role player]
v 1: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though
she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate,
assume, feign]
2: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he
was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: feign, pretend,
affect, dissemble]
[also: shamming, shammed]
Moby Dictionary
Tartuffery , Tartuffism , act , act a part , acting , adulterated ,
affect , affectation , affected , affectedness , airs , airs and graces ,
alibi , ape , apocryphal , apology , appearance , artificial ,
artificiality , assume , assumed , attitudinizing , bastard , blagueur ,
blazon , blind , bluff , bluffer , bluffing , bogus , bravura ,
brilliancy , brummagem , burlesque , cant , caricature , charlatan ,
cheat , cheating , clinquant , cloak , color , colorable , colored ,
coloring , copy , counterfeit , counterfeited , cover , cover story ,
cover up , cover-up , create , daring , dash , deceit , deception ,
delusion , demonstration , device , disguise , display , dissemblance ,
dissemble , dissembling , dissimulate , dissimulation , distorted ,
do a bit , dramatics , dramatize , dressed up , dummy , eclat ,
embellished , embroidered , ersatz , etalage , excuse , exhibition ,
exhibitionism , facade , face , factitious , fake , faked , fakement ,
faker , fakery , faking , false , false air , false front , false show ,
falsified , falsity , fanfaronade , farce , feign , feigned ,
feigned belief , feigning , feint , fictitious , fictive , figure ,
flair , flam , flaunt , flaunting , flourish , forged , forgery ,
four-flush , four-flushing , fourflusher , frame-up , fraud ,
fraudulent , front , gammon , garbled , gilt , gloss , guise , handle ,
histrionics , histrionize , hoax , hokey , humbug , humbuggery ,
hypocrisy , hypocritical , hypocriticalness , illegitimate , image ,
imitate , imitation , impersonator , impostor , imposture , insincerity ,
invent , junk , junky , lame excuse , let on , let on like , lie ,
locus standi , made-up , make a pretense , make as if , make believe ,
make like , make out like , make-believe , malingerer , man-made ,
manifestation , mannerism , mask , masquerade , mere show ,
meretriciousness , mislead , mock , mountebank , ostensible motive ,
ostentation , outward show , overact , pageant , pageantry , parade ,
paste , pecksniffery , perverted , pharisaicalness , pharisaism , phony ,
pinchbeck , plagiarized , plaster , play , play a part , play a scene ,
play possum , playact , playacting , poor excuse , pose , poser , poseur ,
posing , posture , pretend , pretended , pretender , pretense ,
pretension , pretext , profess , protestation , prunes and prisms ,
pseudo , public image , public motive , put on , put on airs , put-off ,
put-on , put-up job , putting on airs , quack , quacksalver , quackster ,
quasi , queer , refuge , representation , ringer , rip-off , saltimbanco ,
sanctimoniousness , sanctimony , screen , seeming , self-styled , sell ,
semblance , shammer , shoddy , show , showing-off , simulacrum ,
simulate , simulated , simulation , smoke screen , snide , so-called ,
soi-disant , speciousness , spectacle , splash , splurge , spoof ,
spurious , staginess , stalking-horse , stratagem , stylishness ,
substitute , subterfuge , supposititious , swindle , synthetic ,
theatrics , tin , tinsel , titivated , travesty , trick ,
tug the heartstrings , twisted , unauthentic , ungenuine , unnatural ,
unnaturalness , unreal , varnish , vaunt , veil , warped , wear ,
whited sepulcher , window dressing


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