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Definition of sham in English: shamnounPlural shams ʃamʃæm 1A thing that is not what it is purported to be. our current free health service is a sham Example sentencesExamples - Is the finding on page 1581 in paragraph 29 a finding of sham?
- If current trends continue, intellectual property laws will become a total sham.
- His use of rhetoric to play with the facts was not a trick or sham, but a legitimate part of a historiographical method.
- He understands only too well that nature is a sham and can be twisted every which way by the forces of evil.
- In fact, he states baldly that ‘Digital certificates provide no actual security; it's a complete sham.’
- I realize you've always been in on our game, that you've been vaguely aware that each crisis call is an elaborately staged sham, and I appreciate you never calling us on it.
- But to everyone else, yes, it was a sham, or an intrigue.
- It is hardly surprising that King was a spinster considering that she spoke contemptuously of the ‘hollow sham called matrimony’ in a letter to a recently married sister.
- My sister continued to tell me that that whole notion was a sham, and that they tried to screw everyone else but themselves.
- The illusion of continuity - a sham - was to be created by the retention of the name given to the trust and the execution of a trust instrument backdated to March 1, 1996.
- I'm almost grateful, to be honest, that we're not taking part in the biggest sham we've ever seen.
- Two years we've shared this house, shared this sham, but we've never lived together, only ever survived.
- People have always had fun that you weren't an actress, that this was all some sort of sham.
- If the new security focus is a sham, expect to see more official denial.
- Thus, the entire industry is one big sham, endlessly killing dinosaurs and wasting coal at an exorbitant rate.
- Creating some faux persona with catchphrases and hobbyhorses to draw people to your blog is a big mistake, because blogging is a long term gig and rare is the person who can keep up that sort of sham, particularly in writing.
- Although saved from the uncomfortable task of explaining to Ellen the sham she created, Gale found that the consequences in continuing with the farce were just as unpleasant.
- Are you trying to say, Justin, that these blessed people are using trickery, skullduggery, flimflammery, shams, pretence, to ply their trade?
- Of later years I have not been proud of participating in this sham.
- Are we not offering our children enough opportunities to learn the true nature of the boring, disappointing sham we call real life?
Synonyms pretence, fake, act, fiction, simulation, imposture, fraud, feint, lie, counterfeit - 1.1mass noun Pretence.
George abhorred sham and affectation Example sentencesExamples - Second, Barnes agreed with South Carolina editor Z. T. Cody who ‘called the whole signing up business sham and hypocrisy.’
- What is the difference between that submission and the submission about sham?
- Now, the dictionaries are all at one in suggesting that colourability carries with it a notion of speciousness or sham, falsity, lack of good faith, and that is entirely consistent with the way the authorities have dealt with it.
- If sham and pretence disqualified enlisted personnel, vulgarity, low intellect and radical politics would do the same for officers.
- Elections are sham, the press is censored, the jails hold some political prisoners.
- They are, in a word, shams designed to lull users into a false sense of security - a form of sham which we believe you press on us solely as posturing, rather than out of any genuine concern for users.
- Unlike so much sham now usurping our stages, Fortune's Fool is a genuine, professionally crafted, and cannily produced play.
- Call them trendsetters, or tacky '70s sham, but the truth is that they were really just trying to make a name for themselves in a rather unforgiving business.
- You do not have a finding of sham or anything of that nature.
- This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as ‘bombastic, sham and hollow’, and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime.
- Rather we read Mark because he is an expert at exposing sham, pretension, and hypocrisy, and because he was the greatest American humorist of the 19th century.
- Those aspirations may represent genuine goals to be worked toward, or amount to sham and pretence, a shallow disguise of radically different and less admirable state purposes and methods.
- To put it another way, we would submit, with respect, that the introduction of the term ‘real money’ is a false inquiry, at least where there is no suggestion of sham or fraud.
- He had the reputation of being a bully and arrogant but only his intolerance of sham made him feared.
- As a satirist, the writer is unafraid of drawing aside the drapes of hypocrisy and sham that seem to safeguard middle-class ethics.
- It is simply fanciful to suppose that the jury might have held the Side Agreements against the appellant as critical evidence to show his knowledge that these annuities were sham.
- However, he found that there was no sham and allowed the taxpayers' appeals.
- A complete cynic develops insight that cuts through sham and goes directly to the heart of the matter.
Synonyms pretence, fake, act, fiction, simulation, imposture, fraud, feint, lie, counterfeit putting on an act, faking, feigning, play-acting, dissembling humbug informal a put-up job - 1.2 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 Example sentencesExamples - Yet Pétain was no such thing; he was a lifelong soldier and a genuine war hero, rather than some preening sham in jackboots.
- The team does not feel the average person today is as ignorant toward shams and charlatans as they might have been just ten years ago.
- He is a great, flabby sham, an actor close to suicide, maybe - and this is an extraordinary display of incipient madness or incorrigible playfulness.
Synonyms charlatan, fake, fraud, impostor, pretender, masquerader, dissembler, wolf in sheep's clothing quack, mountebank informal phoney
2North American short for pillow sham Example sentencesExamples - It has, in fact, taken over Helen's delightful garden home - the front sitting room now a showcase for scores of cushions, imported quilts, shams and fantastic fabrics, mostly from France and Italy.
- Of her many endorsed products, one is of special interest: her line of matelassé coverlets and shams - really, just bedcovers.
- She put new linens, pillows, and shams in the master bedroom, regrouted the master bath, and bought a purple shower curtain and coordinated rug for the kids' bath to draw the eye away from older fixtures.
- Most sheets, pillow cases, bed skirts and shams are machine washable.
- Slipcovers, comforters, sheets, and shams are white as well.
- Three winners will receive a set of 180-thread-count cotton-polyester-blend sheets, a comforter, two shams and a bed skirt; queen size only.
- His sheets were a dark blue, tie-dye, and his sham was khaki with pockets.
- A bed in a bag set includes sheet, pillow cases, a comforter, shams, and skirts for adult beds.
- Also available are shams, duvet covers, bed skirts and light quilts so you can create exactly the look you want.
- Fold each sham horizontally and vertically to locate the center.
- For, one needs, in addition, the matching comforter, bedskirt, duvet, three types of pillows, shams, draperies, upholstered furniture, tablecloths, fabric lampshades, and rugs.
- More tailored bedding styles that downplay decorative pillows and shams are making the once humble sheet more visible than ever.
- The famous label can now be found on bedding - including a reversible comforter set that comes with matching bed skirt and shams.
adjective ʃamʃæm Bogus; false. a clergyman who arranged a sham marriage Example sentencesExamples - Clearly, a sham intent, a false intent, will give the matter away.
- Can two suicidal Turkish Germans living in Hamburg find happiness together, or at least a reason to live, by entering into a sham marriage so she can sleep around?
- The legislation is not intended to be limited to the sham vehicle, but is intended to spread to the legitimate use of service companies, but with potentially different taxation consequences on an engagement by engagement basis.
- Rather a spectacle for a sham marriage isn't it?
- The main characters have presumably left their homes in search at least in part of the cosmopolitanism associated with China's large cities, but what they find is a sham cosmopolitanism.
- No, she reassured herself, there's nothing in God's law or the emperor's that requires me to perpetuate a sham marriage, an unstoppered vessel from which the perfume has evaporated.
- The manager rudely tells him that it was a sham marriage and that his wife wants him to get lost so she can annul it.
- This sham photograph - both the incident it dishonestly records and the chain of events it sets in motion - lies at the heart of the novel.
- No prizes for guessing the result of this sham exercise.
- In effect, there was a fully organised, sophisticated and professional business, run on commercial lines with a sham company, fraudulent invoices, a warehouse and place of business, and even an accountant.
- The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
- But it also suggests a capacity to distance himself from the world and its sham enthusiasms, and lends an unconscious edge to his portrayal of it.
- Although during his reign only about thirty officers died from duelling, a larger number were discharged from the army by their regiments when they refused to duel, or staged a sham duel, after some alleged insult.
- This sham compromise still pits prejudice against science and sets misinformed consumers and protectionist farmers in Europe against producers in America.
- I am an actress, a mimicker, a sham creature - me… how I do loathe my most impotent and unpoetical craft!
- We just don't support unplanned development and a sham consultation process.
- A clear reading of the law shows that these are sham marriages.
- One US company is accused of massively inflating its profits by setting up sham companies to send fake invoices which the coalition paid.
- Then he held a sham budget ‘consultation’ (two one hour public meetings) where he announced that the university did not have enough money to balance its budget and that tuition must go up.
- Who'd ever think the world of sham real-estate brokers would be so compelling until ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ came around?
Synonyms fake, pretended, feigned, simulated, false, artificial, bogus, synthetic, spurious, ersatz, insincere, not genuine, manufactured, contrived, affected, plastic, make-believe, fictitious imitation, mock, counterfeit, fraudulent informal pretend, put-on, phoney, pseudo British informal, dated cod
verbshammed, shams, shamming ʃamʃæm [no object]1Falsely present something as the truth. was he ill or was he shamming? Example sentencesExamples - There is an important distinction to be made between those who are genuinely dull and those who are shamming.
- As he'd walked her home the previous night, it had become obvious that he wasn't shamming, that he really was going to treat her like a kid sister.
- ‘‘Do you think,’ I asked indignantly, ‘he is shamming?’
- They want the company of those who fib and sham, those who can imagine the future and reinvent the past with only half an eye on the unadorned and feeble truth, but with full command of narrative.
- If she is shamming, her body shape will give her plenty of time to either really get pregnant or to claim that she has suffered a miscarriage - probably in response to some claimed misdeed of Peter's.
- 1.1with object Pretend to be or to be experiencing.
no object, with complement the opossum escapes danger by shamming dead Example sentencesExamples - In his secret note of December 19, 1913, he noted that Savarkar was shamming his ‘change of heart’ and that he did not express the slightest remorse or regret for what he had done.
- Throughout his plays the acute social critics, the people who are not taken in by accepted fallacies, are buffoons, villains, lunatics or persons who are shamming insanity or in a state of violent hysteria.
- He portrays him as shamming his injuries.
- It planned for a mock battle, shammed unity, and were confused by the intransigence and solidarity of the other side.
- Could Nick be shamming friendliness until he was offered an opportunity to get rid of him?
Synonyms feign, fake, pretend, put on, make a pretence of, simulate, counterfeit, affect, imitate pretend, fake, dissemble malinger informal put it on British informal swing the lead
Derivatives noun ˈʃaməˈʃæmər No unexpressed intentions of a ‘shammer’ affect the rights of a party whom he deceived. Example sentencesExamples - This group of shammers must of necessity concede defeat in the face of an exact and ontologically authoritative ‘idiocy’.
Origin Late 17th century: perhaps a northern English dialect variant of the noun shame. Rhymes am, Amsterdam, Assam, Bram, cam, cham, cheongsam, clam, cram, dam, damn, drachm, dram, exam, femme, flam, gam, glam, gram, ham, jam, jamb, lam, lamb, mam, mesdames, Omar Khayyám, Pam, pram, pro-am, ram, Sam, scam, scram, Siam, slam, Spam, swam, tam, tram, Vietnam, wham, yam Definition of sham in US English: shamnounʃæmSHam 1A thing that is not what it is purported to be. the proposed legislation is a farce and a sham Example sentencesExamples - Are we not offering our children enough opportunities to learn the true nature of the boring, disappointing sham we call real life?
- I realize you've always been in on our game, that you've been vaguely aware that each crisis call is an elaborately staged sham, and I appreciate you never calling us on it.
- In fact, he states baldly that ‘Digital certificates provide no actual security; it's a complete sham.’
- If the new security focus is a sham, expect to see more official denial.
- The illusion of continuity - a sham - was to be created by the retention of the name given to the trust and the execution of a trust instrument backdated to March 1, 1996.
- Of later years I have not been proud of participating in this sham.
- Are you trying to say, Justin, that these blessed people are using trickery, skullduggery, flimflammery, shams, pretence, to ply their trade?
- I'm almost grateful, to be honest, that we're not taking part in the biggest sham we've ever seen.
- My sister continued to tell me that that whole notion was a sham, and that they tried to screw everyone else but themselves.
- His use of rhetoric to play with the facts was not a trick or sham, but a legitimate part of a historiographical method.
- If current trends continue, intellectual property laws will become a total sham.
- Thus, the entire industry is one big sham, endlessly killing dinosaurs and wasting coal at an exorbitant rate.
- Is the finding on page 1581 in paragraph 29 a finding of sham?
- Creating some faux persona with catchphrases and hobbyhorses to draw people to your blog is a big mistake, because blogging is a long term gig and rare is the person who can keep up that sort of sham, particularly in writing.
- Two years we've shared this house, shared this sham, but we've never lived together, only ever survived.
- It is hardly surprising that King was a spinster considering that she spoke contemptuously of the ‘hollow sham called matrimony’ in a letter to a recently married sister.
- But to everyone else, yes, it was a sham, or an intrigue.
- He understands only too well that nature is a sham and can be twisted every which way by the forces of evil.
- People have always had fun that you weren't an actress, that this was all some sort of sham.
- Although saved from the uncomfortable task of explaining to Ellen the sham she created, Gale found that the consequences in continuing with the farce were just as unpleasant.
Synonyms pretence, fake, act, fiction, simulation, imposture, fraud, feint, lie, counterfeit - 1.1 Pretense.
it all turned out to be sham and hypocrisy Example sentencesExamples - You do not have a finding of sham or anything of that nature.
- What is the difference between that submission and the submission about sham?
- As a satirist, the writer is unafraid of drawing aside the drapes of hypocrisy and sham that seem to safeguard middle-class ethics.
- It is simply fanciful to suppose that the jury might have held the Side Agreements against the appellant as critical evidence to show his knowledge that these annuities were sham.
- This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as ‘bombastic, sham and hollow’, and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime.
- Rather we read Mark because he is an expert at exposing sham, pretension, and hypocrisy, and because he was the greatest American humorist of the 19th century.
- He had the reputation of being a bully and arrogant but only his intolerance of sham made him feared.
- To put it another way, we would submit, with respect, that the introduction of the term ‘real money’ is a false inquiry, at least where there is no suggestion of sham or fraud.
- However, he found that there was no sham and allowed the taxpayers' appeals.
- Call them trendsetters, or tacky '70s sham, but the truth is that they were really just trying to make a name for themselves in a rather unforgiving business.
- They are, in a word, shams designed to lull users into a false sense of security - a form of sham which we believe you press on us solely as posturing, rather than out of any genuine concern for users.
- Those aspirations may represent genuine goals to be worked toward, or amount to sham and pretence, a shallow disguise of radically different and less admirable state purposes and methods.
- If sham and pretence disqualified enlisted personnel, vulgarity, low intellect and radical politics would do the same for officers.
- Now, the dictionaries are all at one in suggesting that colourability carries with it a notion of speciousness or sham, falsity, lack of good faith, and that is entirely consistent with the way the authorities have dealt with it.
- Elections are sham, the press is censored, the jails hold some political prisoners.
- Unlike so much sham now usurping our stages, Fortune's Fool is a genuine, professionally crafted, and cannily produced play.
- A complete cynic develops insight that cuts through sham and goes directly to the heart of the matter.
- Second, Barnes agreed with South Carolina editor Z. T. Cody who ‘called the whole signing up business sham and hypocrisy.’
Synonyms pretence, fake, act, fiction, simulation, imposture, fraud, feint, lie, counterfeit - 1.2 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 Example sentencesExamples - Yet Pétain was no such thing; he was a lifelong soldier and a genuine war hero, rather than some preening sham in jackboots.
- He is a great, flabby sham, an actor close to suicide, maybe - and this is an extraordinary display of incipient madness or incorrigible playfulness.
- The team does not feel the average person today is as ignorant toward shams and charlatans as they might have been just ten years ago.
Synonyms charlatan, fake, fraud, impostor, pretender, masquerader, dissembler, wolf in sheep's clothing
2North American short for pillow sham Example sentencesExamples - His sheets were a dark blue, tie-dye, and his sham was khaki with pockets.
- She put new linens, pillows, and shams in the master bedroom, regrouted the master bath, and bought a purple shower curtain and coordinated rug for the kids' bath to draw the eye away from older fixtures.
- Three winners will receive a set of 180-thread-count cotton-polyester-blend sheets, a comforter, two shams and a bed skirt; queen size only.
- It has, in fact, taken over Helen's delightful garden home - the front sitting room now a showcase for scores of cushions, imported quilts, shams and fantastic fabrics, mostly from France and Italy.
- The famous label can now be found on bedding - including a reversible comforter set that comes with matching bed skirt and shams.
- Slipcovers, comforters, sheets, and shams are white as well.
- Of her many endorsed products, one is of special interest: her line of matelassé coverlets and shams - really, just bedcovers.
- A bed in a bag set includes sheet, pillow cases, a comforter, shams, and skirts for adult beds.
- Fold each sham horizontally and vertically to locate the center.
- For, one needs, in addition, the matching comforter, bedskirt, duvet, three types of pillows, shams, draperies, upholstered furniture, tablecloths, fabric lampshades, and rugs.
- Also available are shams, duvet covers, bed skirts and light quilts so you can create exactly the look you want.
- More tailored bedding styles that downplay decorative pillows and shams are making the once humble sheet more visible than ever.
- Most sheets, pillow cases, bed skirts and shams are machine washable.
adjectiveʃæmSHam Bogus; false. a clergyman who arranged a sham marriage Example sentencesExamples - The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
- This sham photograph - both the incident it dishonestly records and the chain of events it sets in motion - lies at the heart of the novel.
- The main characters have presumably left their homes in search at least in part of the cosmopolitanism associated with China's large cities, but what they find is a sham cosmopolitanism.
- But it also suggests a capacity to distance himself from the world and its sham enthusiasms, and lends an unconscious edge to his portrayal of it.
- We just don't support unplanned development and a sham consultation process.
- Clearly, a sham intent, a false intent, will give the matter away.
- The manager rudely tells him that it was a sham marriage and that his wife wants him to get lost so she can annul it.
- The legislation is not intended to be limited to the sham vehicle, but is intended to spread to the legitimate use of service companies, but with potentially different taxation consequences on an engagement by engagement basis.
- In effect, there was a fully organised, sophisticated and professional business, run on commercial lines with a sham company, fraudulent invoices, a warehouse and place of business, and even an accountant.
- A clear reading of the law shows that these are sham marriages.
- Rather a spectacle for a sham marriage isn't it?
- Who'd ever think the world of sham real-estate brokers would be so compelling until ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ came around?
- Can two suicidal Turkish Germans living in Hamburg find happiness together, or at least a reason to live, by entering into a sham marriage so she can sleep around?
- Although during his reign only about thirty officers died from duelling, a larger number were discharged from the army by their regiments when they refused to duel, or staged a sham duel, after some alleged insult.
- I am an actress, a mimicker, a sham creature - me… how I do loathe my most impotent and unpoetical craft!
- This sham compromise still pits prejudice against science and sets misinformed consumers and protectionist farmers in Europe against producers in America.
- Then he held a sham budget ‘consultation’ (two one hour public meetings) where he announced that the university did not have enough money to balance its budget and that tuition must go up.
- No, she reassured herself, there's nothing in God's law or the emperor's that requires me to perpetuate a sham marriage, an unstoppered vessel from which the perfume has evaporated.
- One US company is accused of massively inflating its profits by setting up sham companies to send fake invoices which the coalition paid.
- No prizes for guessing the result of this sham exercise.
Synonyms fake, pretended, feigned, simulated, false, artificial, bogus, synthetic, spurious, ersatz, insincere, not genuine, manufactured, contrived, affected, plastic, make-believe, fictitious
verbʃæmSHam [no object]1Falsely present something as the truth. was he ill or was he shamming? Example sentencesExamples - They want the company of those who fib and sham, those who can imagine the future and reinvent the past with only half an eye on the unadorned and feeble truth, but with full command of narrative.
- If she is shamming, her body shape will give her plenty of time to either really get pregnant or to claim that she has suffered a miscarriage - probably in response to some claimed misdeed of Peter's.
- As he'd walked her home the previous night, it had become obvious that he wasn't shamming, that he really was going to treat her like a kid sister.
- There is an important distinction to be made between those who are genuinely dull and those who are shamming.
- ‘‘Do you think,’ I asked indignantly, ‘he is shamming?’
- 1.1with object Pretend to be or to be experiencing.
Example sentencesExamples - He portrays him as shamming his injuries.
- In his secret note of December 19, 1913, he noted that Savarkar was shamming his ‘change of heart’ and that he did not express the slightest remorse or regret for what he had done.
- Could Nick be shamming friendliness until he was offered an opportunity to get rid of him?
- It planned for a mock battle, shammed unity, and were confused by the intransigence and solidarity of the other side.
- Throughout his plays the acute social critics, the people who are not taken in by accepted fallacies, are buffoons, villains, lunatics or persons who are shamming insanity or in a state of violent hysteria.
Synonyms feign, fake, pretend, put on, make a pretence of, simulate, counterfeit, affect, imitate pretend, fake, dissemble
Origin Late 17th century: perhaps a northern English dialect variant of the noun shame. |