noun, adjective, verb
noun (disapproving)
1 [sing.] a situation, feeling, system, etc. that is not as good or true as it seems to be:
The latest crime figures are a complete sham. * She felt trapped in a sham of a marriage.
2 [C,usually sing.] a person who pretends to be sth that they are not:
The article exposes him for the sham that he really is.
3 [U] behaviour, feelings, words, etc. that are intended to make sb/sth seem to be better than they really are:
Their promises turned out to be full of sham and hypocrisy. * His intellectual pretensions are all sham.
adjective [onlybeforenoun] (usually disapproving) not genuine but intended to seem real
SYNFALSE:
a sham marriage
verb (-mm-) to pretend sth: [V] Is he really sick or is he just shamming? [also V-ADJ, VN]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sham is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does sham appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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