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  Sham \Sham\, a.
     False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham
     fight.
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           They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by
           the Athenians.                           --Jowett
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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.
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              Fooled and shammed into a conviction. --L'Estrange.
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     2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition. [R.]
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              We must have a care that we do not . . . sham
              fallacies upon the world for current reason.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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     3. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape;
        to feign.
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     To sham Abram or To sham Abraham, to feign sickness; to
        malinger. Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant,
        Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.
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  Sham \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.'' --Bp.
        Stillingfleet.
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              Believe who will the solemn sham, not I. --Addison.
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     2. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
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     Pillow sham, a covering to be laid on a pillow.
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  Sham \Sham\, v. i.
     To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.
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           Wondering . . . whether those who lectured him were
           such fools as they professed to be, or were only
           shamming.                                --Macaulay.
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  Sham \Sham\, a.
     False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham
     fight.
  
           They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by
           the Athenians.                           --Jowett
                                                    (Thucyd)

  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.
  
              Fooled and shammed into a conviction. --L'Estrange.
  
     2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition. [R.]
  
              We must have a care that we do not . . . sham
              fallacies upon the world for current reason.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
  
     3. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape;
        to feign.
  
     To sham Abram or Abraham, to feign sickness; to malinger.
        Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant, Sham
        Abram, or Sham Abraham.

  Sham \Sham\, v. i.
     To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.
  
           Wondering . . . whether those who lectured him were
           such fools as they professed to be, or were only
           shamming.                                --Macaulay.

  Sham \Sham\, 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 disappoint; a make-believe;
        delusion; imposture, humbug. ``A mere sham.'' --Bp.
        Stillingfleet.
  
              Believe who will the solemn sham, not I. --Addison.
  
     2. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
  
     Pillow sham, a covering to be laid on a pillow.

  sham
       adj : 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" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious,
              fictive, pretended, put on]
       n 1: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
            [syn: fake, postiche]
       2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor,
           pretender, fake, faker, fraud, shammer, pseudo,
           pseud, role player]
       v 1: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though
            she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate,
             assume, feign]
       2: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he
          was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: feign, pretend,
           affect, dissemble]
       [also: shamming, shammed]

  sham
     Karakalpak n.
     candle
     Uzbek n.
     candle

  Sham
     n.
     (surname: en).

  sham
     a.
     1 Intended to deceive; false.
     2 counterfeit; unreal
     n.
     1 A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
     2 trickery, hoaxing.
     3 A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
     4 A decorative cover for a pillow.
     vb.
     1 To deceive, cheat, lie.
     2 To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
     3 To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to
  feign.
     n.
     (lb en slang) champagne.

  Sham
     n.
     (surname: en).

  sham
     Uzbek n.
     candle

  Sham
     n.
     (surname: en).

  sham
     a.
     1 Intended to deceive; false.
     2 counterfeit; unreal
     n.
     1 A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
     2 trickery, hoaxing.
     3 A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
     4 A decorative cover for a pillow.
     vb.
     1 To deceive, cheat, lie.
     2 To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
     3 To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to
  feign.
     n.
     (lb en slang) champagne.

  Sham
     n.
     (surname: en).

  sham
     Englanti a.
     hämäys-, feikki-, vale-, kulissi-
     Englanti n.
     1 hämäys, feikki, kulissi; jokin mikä esittää (petollisesti) muuta
  kuin todella on
     2 (yhteys AmE k=en) (nukkumatyynyn) koristepäällinen, tyynynpäällinen
  tai normaalin tyynyn kokoinen vuoteen koristetyyny

  sham
     Engelska n.
     hyckleri, sken-

  Sham /ʃˈam/
  الكذب

  sham //ʃæm// 
  подправен, престорен
  intended to deceive

  sham //ʃæm// 
  1. измама, имитация
  fake, imitation
  2. преструвка, симулация
  trickery, hoaxing

  sham //ʃæm// 
  мамя, преструвам се
  to cheat or deceive

  sham /ʃˈam/ 
  falešný

  sham /ʃˈam/
  vorgetäuschte Sache , Mache  [pej.]
        "It's pure sham."  - Das ist reine Mache., Nichts als Mache!
   see: It's all put on.
  

  sham /ʃˈam/ 
  simulieren, vortäuschen 
   see: shamming, shammed, shams, shammed
  

  sham /ʃˈam/ 
  sich verstellen 
        "She isn't really upset – she's just shamming."  - Sie ist nicht wirklich gekränkt – sie tut nur so
   see: shamming, shammed, shams, shammed
  

  sham /ʃˈam/
  vorgetäuscht, fingiert , Schein…
   see: sham sympathy, sham deal
  

  sham /ʃˈam/
  Betrug 
   see: sham
  

  sham /ʃˈam/
  Lug und Trug 
   see: sham
  

  sham /ʃˈam/
  Schwindel 
   see: sham
  

  sham /ʃˈam/
  Täuschung 
   see: sham
  

  sham /ʃˈam/
  Schein 
   see: sham
  

  sham /ʃˈam/
  Augenwischerei 
   see: sham
  

  sham /ʃˈam/
  Heuchelei 

  sham /ʃˈam/
  
  καμώματα

  sham //ʃæm// 
  näennäinen
  intended to deceive

  sham //ʃæm// 
  1. väärennös, jäljennös
  fake, imitation
  2. petos, huijaus, huiputus
  trickery, hoaxing

  sham //ʃæm// 
  huijata, huiputtaa, puijata
  to cheat or deceive

  sham /ʃˈam/ 
  1. का अभिनय करना
        "He's only shamming."

  sham /ʃˈam/ 
  1. कपटी
        "She claims to know all about computers but really she's a sham."
  2. कपट
        "His love was a sham - he only wanted her money."
  3. धोखा
        "They have intellectual pretentions but it is all sham."

  sham /ʃˈam/
  lažan, pretvaralo, prijevara, prividnost, stimulans, varalica, varati

  sham /ʃˈam/
  1. nem valódi
  2. csalás
  3. ámítás
  4. színlelés
  5. tettetés
  6. sarlatán
  7. ál-
  8. utánzat
  9. hamis

  sham //ʃæm// 
  1. 真似事, 紛い物
  fake, imitation
  2. ごまかし
  trickery, hoaxing

  sham /ʃæm/
  I.    pozór, fikcja
  II.    udawany, fikcyjny

  sham /ʃˈam/
  1. taklit, yapmacık, yalan, hile
  2. hile yapmak, yapmacık yapmak, taklit etmek. sham sleep yalandan uyumak, uyur görünmek.

  Sham 
  
  Syria

  
/ˈʃæm/

  279 Moby Thesaurus words for "sham":
     Tartuffery, Tartuffism, act, act a part, acting, adulterated,
     affect, affectation, affected, affectedness, airs, airs and graces,
     alibi, ape, apocryphal, apology, appearance, artificial,
     artificiality, assume, assumed, attitudinizing, bastard, blagueur,
     blazon, blind, bluff, bluffer, bluffing, bogus, bravura,
     brilliancy, brummagem, burlesque, cant, caricature, charlatan,
     cheat, cheating, clinquant, cloak, color, colorable, colored,
     coloring, copy, counterfeit, counterfeited, cover, cover story,
     cover up, cover-up, create, daring, dash, deceit, deception,
     delusion, demonstration, device, disguise, display, dissemblance,
     dissemble, dissembling, dissimulate, dissimulation, distorted,
     do a bit, dramatics, dramatize, dressed up, dummy, eclat,
     embellished, embroidered, ersatz, etalage, excuse, exhibition,
     exhibitionism, facade, face, factitious, fake, faked, fakement,
     faker, fakery, faking, false, false air, false front, false show,
     falsified, falsity, fanfaronade, farce, feign, feigned,
     feigned belief, feigning, feint, fictitious, fictive, figure,
     flair, flam, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, forged, forgery,
     four-flush, four-flushing, fourflusher, frame-up, fraud,
     fraudulent, front, gammon, garbled, gilt, gloss, guise, handle,
     histrionics, histrionize, hoax, hokey, humbug, humbuggery,
     hypocrisy, hypocritical, hypocriticalness, illegitimate, image,
     imitate, imitation, impersonator, impostor, imposture, insincerity,
     invent, junk, junky, lame excuse, let on, let on like, lie,
     locus standi, made-up, make a pretense, make as if, make believe,
     make like, make out like, make-believe, malingerer, man-made,
     manifestation, mannerism, mask, masquerade, mere show,
     meretriciousness, mislead, mock, mountebank, ostensible motive,
     ostentation, outward show, overact, pageant, pageantry, parade,
     paste, pecksniffery, perverted, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phony,
     pinchbeck, plagiarized, plaster, play, play a part, play a scene,
     play possum, playact, playacting, poor excuse, pose, poser, poseur,
     posing, posture, pretend, pretended, pretender, pretense,
     pretension, pretext, profess, protestation, prunes and prisms,
     pseudo, public image, public motive, put on, put on airs, put-off,
     put-on, put-up job, putting on airs, quack, quacksalver, quackster,
     quasi, queer, refuge, representation, ringer, rip-off, saltimbanco,
     sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, screen, seeming, self-styled, sell,
     semblance, shammer, shoddy, show, showing-off, simulacrum,
     simulate, simulated, simulation, smoke screen, snide, so-called,
     soi-disant, speciousness, spectacle, splash, splurge, spoof,
     spurious, staginess, stalking-horse, stratagem, stylishness,
     substitute, subterfuge, supposititious, swindle, synthetic,
     theatrics, tin, tinsel, titivated, travesty, trick,
     tug the heartstrings, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural,
     unnaturalness, unreal, varnish, vaunt, veil, warped, wear,
     whited sepulcher, window dressing
  
  

  n. 假,膺品,骗子;
  a. 假的,伪造的;
  v. 假装,学样子;

     n. 假,赝品,骗子,哄骗
     a. 假的,伪造的
     vt. 假装,学样子
     vi. 装假