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n. Something false or empty that is purported to be genuine; a spurious imitation.

n. The quality of deceitfulness; empty pretense.

n. One who assumes a false character; an impostor: "He a man! Hell! He was a hollow sham!” ( Joseph Conrad).

n. A decorative cover made to simulate an article of household linen and used over or in place of it: a pillow sham.

adj. Not genuine; fake: sham diamonds; sham modesty.

v. To put on the false appearance of; feign: "shamming insanity to get his tormentors to leave him alone” ( John Wain).

verb-intransitive. To assume a false appearance or character; dissemble.

adj. Intended to deceive; false.

n. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.

n. Trickery, hoaxing.

n. A decorative cover for a pillow.

v. To deceive, cheat, lie.

n. That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoints; a make-believe; delusion; imposture; humbug.

n. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.

adj. False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal.

v. To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses.

v. To obtrude by fraud or imposition.

v. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

verb-intransitive. To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.

n. Shame; disgrace; fault.

n. A trick put upon one; a trick or device that deludes or disappoints expectation; fraud; imposture; make-believe; humbug: as, an age of shams.

n. Some device meant to give a thing a different outward appearance, as of neatness and finish, or to imitate something which it is not. Specifically

n. A false pillow-cover; a pillow-sham.

n. A strip of fine linen, often embroidered, put under the upper edge of the bed-coverings and turned over, as if forming the upper end of the sheet.

n. plural Gaiters.

False; counterfeit; pretended: as, a sham fight.

Synonyms Mock, spurious, make-believe.

To deceive; trick; cheat; delude with false pretenses.

To obtrude by fraud or imposition.

To make a pretense of in order to deceive; feign; imitate: as, to sham illness.

To pretend; make false pretenses; pretend to be, do, etc., what one is not, does not, does not mean, etc.

v. make believe with the intent to deceive

adj. adopted in order to deceive

v. make a pretence of

n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

n. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

"The term sham derives from the root shameful I believe."

imitative    counterfeit    to sham abraham   

real    sincere    genuine   

shammed    shamming    shams   

sham answer    to sham abraham    pillow sham   

shamming    shammed   

shamateur   

make-believe    delusion    imposture    humbug    false    counterfeit    pretended    feigned    unreal    imitate   

Abram    Am    Cam    Dam    Durham    Graeme    Graham    Ham    Hamm    Lamb   

hypocrisy    deceit    fraud    humbug    mock    artifice    delusion    genuine    evasion    cant