noun. undefined

noun. Something false or empty that is purported to be genuine.

noun. Deceitfulness or pretense.

noun. One who claims to be what he or she is not; an impostor or fraud.

noun. A decorative cover made to simulate an article of household linen and used over or in place of it.

adjective. Not genuine; fake.

intransitive verb. To put on the false appearance of; feign.

intransitive verb. To assume a false appearance or character; dissemble.

To deceive; trick; cheat; delude with false pretenses.

To obtrude by fraud or imposition.

To make a pretense of in order to deceive; feign; imitate: as, to sham illness.

To pretend; make false pretenses; pretend to be, do, etc., what one is not, does not, does not mean, etc.

noun. Shame; disgrace; fault.

noun. A trick put upon one; a trick or device that deludes or disappoints expectation; fraud; imposture; make-believe; humbug: as, an age of shams.

noun. Some device meant to give a thing a different outward appearance, as of neatness and finish, or to imitate something which it is not. Specifically

noun. A false pillow-cover; a pillow-sham.

noun. A strip of fine linen, often embroidered, put under the upper edge of the bed-coverings and turned over, as if forming the upper end of the sheet.

noun. plural Gaiters.

False; counterfeit; pretended: as, a sham fight.

Synonyms Mock, spurious, make-believe.

adjective. False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal.

noun. That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoints; a make-believe; delusion; imposture; humbug.

noun. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.

noun. a covering to be laid on a pillow.

intransitive verb. To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.

transitive verb. To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false pretenses.

transitive verb. To obtrude by fraud or imposition.

transitive verb. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

transitive verb. to feign sickness; to malinger. Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant, Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.

transitive verb. undefined

adjective. Intended to deceive; false.

noun. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.

noun. Trickery, hoaxing.

noun. A decorative cover for a pillow.

verb. To deceive, cheat, lie.

verb. make believe with the intent to deceive

adjective. adopted in order to deceive

verb. make a pretence of

noun. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

noun. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

"Instead of this, we either put on a stock with a sham tie, (now all _sham_ things, of what kind soever, militate against good taste,) or else, to make the most of our scarf, we fill up the aperture of the waistcoat with an ambitious quantity of drapery, and we stick therein an enormous and obtrusively ostentatious pin."

genuine  real  sincere  

pillow sham  sham answer  to sham abraham  

counterfeit  imitative  to sham abraham  

shamateur  

Abram  Am  Cam  Dam  Durham  

affectation  artifice  cant  deceit  delusion  

Tartuffery  Tartuffism  act  act a part  acting  

shammed  shamming  

shammed  shamming  shams