sham

sham: sham¹ /'sham/ n: something that is false, deceptive, misleading, or otherwise not genuine

sham² adj: not genuine: intended to mislead or deceive: false illusory

the sale for one dollar was a sham transfer of property

sham: I noun chicanery, counterfeit, deception, delusion, dolus, fabrication, fake, fallacia, false show, feint, forgery, fraud, ffaus, guise, imitation, impersonation, impostor, imposture, masquerade, misrepresentation, mock, pretense, reproduction, simulacrum, simulation, trick, trickery associated concepts: sham defense, sham pleading II index artifice, bogus, cloak, colorable (specious), cover (pretext), deceit, deception, deceptive, delusive, disguise, duplicity, evasion, fabricate (make up), fake, false (not genuine), false pretense, feign, fictitious, forgery, fraud, fraudulent, hoax, imitation, imposture, invent (falsify), mendacious, meretricious, misrepresent, pretend, pretense (ostentation), pretense (pretext), pretext, prevaricate, profess (pretend), recreant, role, ruse, spurious, subterfuge

sham: n.
Something that is false; a fake; a pretense.
adj.
False; not what it is purported to be.

sham: 1 n. A counterfeit; something that is not what it seems or appears to be; a fake; a person pretending to be something or someone other than who she really is.

2 adj. Deceitful or dishonest.

sham: False; without substance.

sham: False; without substance.

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Synonyms:

Feign, pretend, make pretence of, imitate, ape / Trick, cheat, delude, dupe / Impose, obtrude by fraud, Deceive, feign, impose, pretend, Imposture, imposition, trick, fraud, feint, delusion, humbug, pretence, clap-trap, Pretended, false, assumed, counterfeit, mock, spurious, clap-trap, make-believe

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Sham — may refer to:* Sham (horse), American Thoroughbred horse born in 1970 who won multiple graded stakes races * Sham, Alpha Sagittae star * Sham (Arabic: شام), al Sham, or Bilad al Sham, a region in the Middle East partially including Syria, Lebanon … Wikipedia
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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. [1913 Webster] Fooled and shammed into a conviction. L Estrange. [1913 Webster] 2. To obtrude by fraud or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sham — /sham/, n., adj., v., shammed, shamming. n. 1. something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax. 2. a person who shams; shammer. 3. a cover or the like for giving a thing a different outward appearance: a pillow… … Universalium
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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sham — adj being a treatment or procedure that is performed as a control and that is similar to but omits a key therapeutic element of the treatment or procedure under investigation <sham surgery, in which doctors make an incision in a patient s knee … Medical dictionary
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) [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sham — puede referirse a: País de Sham, una región histórico cultural de Oriente Medio. Sham, nombre de la estrella α Sagittae. Esta página de desambiguación cataloga artículos relacionados con el mismo título. Si llegaste aquí a través de … Wikipedia Español
sham — (n.) 1670s, a trick, a hoax, a fraud, perhaps from sham, a northern dialectal variant of SHAME (Cf. shame) (q.v.). Sense of Something meant to be mistaken for something else is from 1728. The meaning in pillow sham (1721) is from the notion of… … Etymology dictionary

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