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Sham
ʃam
Sham definitions
noun
sham
shams
- a thing that is not what it is purported to be
"our current free health service is a sham"
- pretence
"George abhorred sham and affectation"
- a person who pretends to be someone or something they are not
"he was a sham, totally unqualified for his job as a senior doctor"
adjective
sham
- bogus; false
"a clergyman who arranged a sham marriage"
fake pretended feigned simulated false artificial bogus synthetic spurious ersatz insincere not genuine manufactured contrived affected performative plastic make-believe fictitious
verb
shams
shamming
shammed
sham
- falsely present something as the truth
"was he ill or was he shamming?"
- pretend to be or to be experiencing
"she shams indifference"