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- DictionarySham/SHam/
noun
- 1. a thing that is not what it is purported to be: "the proposed legislation is a farce and a sham"
- 2. short for pillow sham North American
adjective
- 1. bogus; false: "a clergyman who arranged a sham marriage"
verb
- 1. falsely present something as the truth: "was he ill or was he shamming?"
sham. 1 of 3. noun. ˈsham. Synonyms of sham. 1. : a trick that deludes : hoax. feared that the deal was a sham. 2. : cheap falseness : hypocrisy. saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant Oscar Wilde. 3. : an ornamental covering for a pillow. 4. : an imitation or counterfeit purporting to be genuine. 5.
noun. something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax. Synonyms: pretense. a person who shams; shammer. a cover or the like for giving a thing a different outward appearance: a pillow sham.
something that is not what it seems to be and is intended to deceive people, or someone who pretends to be something they are not: It turned out that he wasn't a real doctor at all - he was just a sham. They claimed that the election had been fair, but really it was a sham. Synonyms.
2 days ago · anything that is not what it purports or appears to be. 2. something false, fake, or fictitious that purports to be genuine. 3. a person who pretends to be something other than he or she is. adjective. 4. counterfeit or false; simulated. verb Word forms: shams, shamming, shammed.
1. anything that is not what it purports or appears to be. 2. something false, fake, or fictitious that purports to be genuine. 3. a person who pretends to be something other than he is. adj. counterfeit or false; simulated. vb, shams, shamming or shammed.
Definitions of sham. noun. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be. synonyms: fake, postiche. see more. noun. a person who makes deceitful pretenses. synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, humbug, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, shammer. see more. adjective. adopted in order to deceive. “ sham modesty”
[uncountable] behaviour, feelings, words, etc. that are intended to make somebody/something seem to be better than they really are. Their promises turned out to be full of sham and hypocrisy. His intellectual pretensions are all sham. Word Origin. See sham in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: sham.
