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US
/ˈʃæm/
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[ UK /ʃˈæm/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈæm/ ]
VERB
-
make believe with the intent to deceive
He feigned that he was ill
He shammed a headache -
make a pretence of
She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger
he feigned sleep
ADJECTIVE
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adopted in order to deceive
an assumed name
a put-on childish voice
an assumed cheerfulness
a fictitious address
fictive sympathy
sham modesty
a pretended interest
NOUN
- something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- a person who makes deceitful pretenses
How To Use sham In A Sentence
- I dont know what these people keep talking about I bought sham wow and it SUCKS it just pushed the liquid around and did NOT absorb it at all, its a piece of crap use real car shammies, paper towels, sponges, or regular dishrags and you'd get way better results. Undefined
- A shame since it includes the weapons, sabotage devices and other inventions which undoubtedly frustrated the German forces.
- Once the more resistant gently dipping rocks of the Cotswolds have been removed, the underlying softer beds are easily eroded, so the Jurassic escarpments to the east of the Vales of Evesham and Gloucester retreated through time.
- Police believe a gang of up to five men were responsible for a raid on a Melksham store in which hundreds of pounds were stolen from an unlocked office.
- From beyond the doors, the hubbub still continued; but it trailed off, damped by the hush of those in front to a kind of shamefaced muttering. Funeral Games
- Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal. Hair fix #3
- It would be a shame to lose it - it is the landmark of the town centre.
- It was so obvious they have had contact since NZ and this was a scripted farce to deter us from the fact that Jason Mesnick the most hated man in America and his ice princess walk of shamer Molly WERE CHEATING. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
- He had a bank balance that a senior merchant banker would not be ashamed of.
- Both the antisense drug and glibenclamide led to 75% reductions in spinal cord lesion volume six weeks after the injury, compared with sham-treated animals, the researchers reported. Social Security Reports, News and Informaion