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Defenition of the word sham

    • Defenition of the word sham

      • To act as if something is true.
      • 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"
      • something false; not what it seems to be
      • make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
      • a person who makes deceitful pretenses
      • make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
      • something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
      • make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
      • make believe with the intent to deceive
      • make a pretence of
      • adopted in order to deceive

    Synonyms for the word sham

      • act
      • affect
      • assume
      • assumed
      • bogus
      • charade
      • charlatan
      • cheat
      • con
      • deception
      • dissemble
      • facade
      • fake
      • faker
      • false
      • feign
      • fictitious
      • fictive
      • fraud
      • imitate
      • imitation
      • imposter
      • impostor
      • mock
      • play
      • postiche
      • pretend
      • pretended
      • pretender
      • pretense
      • pseud
      • pseudo
      • put it on
      • put on
      • role player
      • simulate

    Similar words in the sham

      • counterfeit
      • imitative
      • sham
      • sham's
      • shaman
      • shaman's
      • shamans
      • shamble
      • shambled
      • shambles
      • shambles's
      • shambling
      • shame
      • shame's
      • shamed
      • shamefaced
      • shameful
      • shamefully
      • shamefulness
      • shameless
      • shamelessly
      • shames
      • shaming
      • shammed
      • shamming
      • shampoo
      • shampoo's
      • shampooed
      • shampooing
      • shampoos
      • shamrock
      • shamrock's
      • shamrocks
      • shams

    Hyponyms for the word sham

      • bull
      • bullshit
      • fake
      • fake book
      • feint
      • mouth
      • name dropper
      • play
      • play possum
      • potemkin village
      • ringer
      • take a dive
      • talk through one's hat

    Hypernyms for the word sham

      • act
      • beguiler
      • belie
      • cheat
      • cheater
      • counterfeit
      • deceiver
      • dissemble
      • forgery
      • imitation
      • misrepresent
      • pretend
      • slicker
      • trickster

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