sham
IPA: ʃˈæm
noun
- A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
- Trickery, hoaxing.
- A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
- A decorative cover for a pillow.
- (slang) Champagne.
- A surname.
verb
- To deceive, cheat, lie.
- To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
- To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.
adjective
- Intended to deceive; false.
- counterfeit; unreal
- mock
- See also Thesaurus:fake
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Examples of "sham" in Sentences
- This work is a sham.
- Burke refused to participate in the sham.
- The real sham starts in the control room.
- The term sham derives from the root shameful I believe.
- However the film is a sham and the Helm's the real thing.
- The international community condemned the trial as a sham.
- The Obama's modification plan is the biggest sham in history.
- The dates of the annual Shim Sham shows coincide with Jazz Fest.
- An utter absence of cant, affectation, and sham distinguishes them.
- The current article is a sham and is the ultimate product of mediocrity.
- There are some great sources for the advent of and use of sham acupuncture.
- "I'm extremely disappointed in the elections, which I labelled a sham election," he said.
- Additional comments in the P-I story reveal what a sham is the rubric of "diversity" at UW and in Seattle.
- PHILLIPS: Saddam Hussein, angry over what he calls a sham of a trial, boycotts today's proceedings in Baghdad.
- Also on Sunday, the Taliban vowed to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
- Kaunda said he would organize a campaign of strikes, demonstrations and civil disobedience against what he termed sham elections that would lack legitimacy without his main opposition group taking part.
- Associated Press Writers = KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
- "I care deeply about the people of Zimbabwe, I am extremely disappointed in the election, which I labelled a sham election," Bush said with Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete, the current chairman of the AU.
- "I care deeply about the people of Zimbabwe, I am extremely disappointed in the election, which I labelled a sham election," Bush said on the sidelines of a summit of rich nations at this mountain resort in northern Japan.
- 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.