Definitions of SHAM [ʃæm]

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Definition of 'SHAM'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) sham
a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.

2.  sham
a person who pretends or counterfeits.

3.  sham
a cover or the like:
a pillow sham.

4. (adj.) sham
pretended; counterfeit:
sham attacks.

5.  sham
designed, made, or used as a sham.

6. (v.t.) sham
to produce an imitation of.

7.  sham
to feign.

8. (v.i.) sham
to make a false show of something.

Etymology: (1670–80)

Definition of 'SHAM'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) fake, sham, postiche
something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

2. (adj) imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
a person who makes deceitful pretenses

3. (verb) assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham
adopted in order to deceive
"an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

4. (verb) simulate, assume, sham, feign
make a pretence of
"She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

5. (verb) feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
make believe with the intent to deceive
"He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

Definition of 'SHAM'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) SHAM
false; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight

2. (noun) SHAM
that which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug

3. (noun) SHAM
a false front, or removable ornamental covering

4. (verb) SHAM
to trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses

5. (verb) SHAM
to obtrude by fraud or imposition

6. (verb) SHAM
to assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign

7. (verb) SHAM
to make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose

Translation of 'SHAM'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: something that is pretended, not genuine The whole trial was a sham.
Afrikaans: skyn	Arabic: رياء، تَصَنُّع، تَمْويه	Bulgarian: преструвка
Brazilian: farsa	Czech: podvod	German: die Täuschung
Danish: humbug	Greek: απάτη, ψέμα	Spanish: farsa, simulacro
Estonian: pettus	Farsi: ساختگي	Finnish: sumutus
French: imposture; imitation	Hebrew: מְזוּיָף	Hindi: कपट, ढोंग
Croatian: varka, prijevara	Hungarian: csalás	Indonesian: kepura-puraan
Icelandic: uppgerð, látalæti	Italian: finzione	Japanese: 見せかけ
Korean: 허위, 위선	Lithuanian: apgaulė	Latvian: izlikšanās; viltojums; bl
Malay: kepura-puraan	Dutch: veinzerij	Norwegian: juks, spill, bedrageri
Polish: lipa	Persian: ساختگي	Pashto: شرم، پښيماني، سپكوالى، خج
Portuguese: farsa	Romanian: impostură; imitaţie	Russian: притворство; подделка
Slovak: podvod	Slovenian: prevara	Serbian: prevara
Swedish: humbug, bluff	Thai: การปลอมแปลง	Turkish: taklit, göz boyama
Taiwanese: 騙局，虛假	Ukrainian: удавання; прикидання	Urdu: دکھاوا
Vietnamese: sự giả bộ	Chinese: 哄骗，伪装
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