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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. : a person who shams. sham. 2 of 3. adjective. 1.
Synonyms for SHAM: faux, fake, synthetic, simulated, dummy, artificial, false, imitation; Antonyms of SHAM: real, genuine, natural, true, legitimate, authentic, bona fide, valuable
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.
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.
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.
A sham is a fake. If you frequently order products advertised on late-night, hour-long television commercials, you’ve probably ended up with at least one item that was a sham.
[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.
something false, fake, or fictitious that purports to be genuine. a person who pretends to be something other than he is. adj. counterfeit or false; simulated. vb (shams, shamming, shammed) to falsely assume the appearance of (something); counterfeit: to sham illness.
What does the word sham mean? There are 16 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word sham , six of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
