sham 音标拼音: [ʃ'æm]
n . 假,赝品,骗子,哄骗
a . 假的,伪造的
vt . 假装,学样子
vi . 装假
假,赝品,骗子,哄骗假的,伪造的假装,学样子装假
sham adj 1 :
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 " [
synonym : {
assumed }, {
false },
{
fictitious }, {
fictive }, {
pretended }, {
put on }, {
sham }]
n 1 :
something that is a counterfeit ;
not what it seems to be [
synonym : {
fake }, {
sham }, {
postiche }]
2 :
a person who makes deceitful pretenses [
synonym : {
imposter },
{
impostor }, {
pretender }, {
fake }, {
faker }, {
fraud }, {
sham },
{
shammer }, {
pseudo }, {
pseud }, {
role player }]
v 1 :
make a pretence of ; "
She assumed indifference ,
even though she was seething with anger "; "
he feigned sleep " [
synonym :
{
simulate }, {
assume }, {
sham }, {
feign }]
2 :
make believe with the intent to deceive ; "
He feigned that he was ill "; "
He shammed a headache " [
synonym : {
feign }, {
sham },
{
pretend }, {
affect }, {
dissemble }]
Sham \
Sham \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Shammed };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Shamming }.]
1 .
To trick ;
to cheat ;
to deceive or delude with false pretenses .
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Fooled and shammed into a conviction . --
L '
Estrange .
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2 .
To obtrude by fraud or imposition . [
R .]
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We must have a care that we do not . . .
sham fallacies upon the world for current reason .
--
L '
Estrange .
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3 .
To assume the manner and character of ;
to imitate ;
to ape ;
to feign .
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{
To sham Abram }
or {
To sham Abraham },
to feign sickness ;
to malinger .
Hence a malingerer is called ,
in sailors '
cant ,
Sham Abram ,
or Sham Abraham .
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Sham \
Sham \,
v .
i .
To make false pretenses ;
to deceive ;
to feign ;
to impose .
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Wondering . . .
whether those who lectured him were such fools as they professed to be ,
or were only shamming . --
Macaulay .
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Sham \
Sham \ (
sh [
a ^]
m ),
n . [
Originally the same word as shame ,
hence ,
a disgrace ,
a trick .
See {
Shame },
n .]
1 .
That which deceives expectation ;
any trick ,
fraud ,
or device that deludes and disappoints ;
a make -
believe ;
delusion ;
imposture ;
humbug . "
A mere sham ." --
Bp .
Stillingfleet .
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Believe who will the solemn sham ,
not I . --
Addison .
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2 .
A false front ,
or removable ornamental covering .
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{
Pillow sham },
a covering to be laid on a pillow .
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Sham \
Sham \,
a .
False ;
counterfeit ;
pretended ;
feigned ;
unreal ;
as ,
a sham fight .
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They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians . --
Jowett (
Thucyd )
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279 Moby Thesaurus words for "
sham ":
Tartuffery ,
Tartuffism ,
act ,
act a part ,
acting ,
adulterated ,
affect ,
affectation ,
affected ,
affectedness ,
airs ,
airs and graces ,
alibi ,
ape ,
apocryphal ,
apology ,
appearance ,
artificial ,
artificiality ,
assume ,
assumed ,
attitudinizing ,
bastard ,
blagueur ,
blazon ,
blind ,
bluff ,
bluffer ,
bluffing ,
bogus ,
bravura ,
brilliancy ,
brummagem ,
burlesque ,
cant ,
caricature ,
charlatan ,
cheat ,
cheating ,
clinquant ,
cloak ,
color ,
colorable ,
colored ,
coloring ,
copy ,
counterfeit ,
counterfeited ,
cover ,
cover story ,
cover up ,
cover -
up ,
create ,
daring ,
dash ,
deceit ,
deception ,
delusion ,
demonstration ,
device ,
disguise ,
display ,
dissemblance ,
dissemble ,
dissembling ,
dissimulate ,
dissimulation ,
distorted ,
do a bit ,
dramatics ,
dramatize ,
dressed up ,
dummy ,
eclat ,
embellished ,
embroidered ,
ersatz ,
etalage ,
excuse ,
exhibition ,
exhibitionism ,
facade ,
face ,
factitious ,
fake ,
faked ,
fakement ,
faker ,
fakery ,
faking ,
false ,
false air ,
false front ,
false show ,
falsified ,
falsity ,
fanfaronade ,
farce ,
feign ,
feigned ,
feigned belief ,
feigning ,
feint ,
fictitious ,
fictive ,
figure ,
flair ,
flam ,
flaunt ,
flaunting ,
flourish ,
forged ,
forgery ,
four -
flush ,
four -
flushing ,
fourflusher ,
frame -
up ,
fraud ,
fraudulent ,
front ,
gammon ,
garbled ,
gilt ,
gloss ,
guise ,
handle ,
histrionics ,
histrionize ,
hoax ,
hokey ,
humbug ,
humbuggery ,
hypocrisy ,
hypocritical ,
hypocriticalness ,
illegitimate ,
image ,
imitate ,
imitation ,
impersonator ,
impostor ,
imposture ,
insincerity ,
invent ,
junk ,
junky ,
lame excuse ,
let on ,
let on like ,
lie ,
locus standi ,
made -
up ,
make a pretense ,
make as if ,
make believe ,
make like ,
make out like ,
make -
believe ,
malingerer ,
man -
made ,
manifestation ,
mannerism ,
mask ,
masquerade ,
mere show ,
meretriciousness ,
mislead ,
mock ,
mountebank ,
ostensible motive ,
ostentation ,
outward show ,
overact ,
pageant ,
pageantry ,
parade ,
paste ,
pecksniffery ,
perverted ,
pharisaicalness ,
pharisaism ,
phony ,
pinchbeck ,
plagiarized ,
plaster ,
play ,
play a part ,
play a scene ,
play possum ,
playact ,
playacting ,
poor excuse ,
pose ,
poser ,
poseur ,
posing ,
posture ,
pretend ,
pretended ,
pretender ,
pretense ,
pretension ,
pretext ,
profess ,
protestation ,
prunes and prisms ,
pseudo ,
public image ,
public motive ,
put on ,
put on airs ,
put -
off ,
put -
on ,
put -
up job ,
putting on airs ,
quack ,
quacksalver ,
quackster ,
quasi ,
queer ,
refuge ,
representation ,
ringer ,
rip -
off ,
saltimbanco ,
sanctimoniousness ,
sanctimony ,
screen ,
seeming ,
self -
styled ,
sell ,
semblance ,
shammer ,
shoddy ,
show ,
showing -
off ,
simulacrum ,
simulate ,
simulated ,
simulation ,
smoke screen ,
snide ,
so -
called ,
soi -
disant ,
speciousness ,
spectacle ,
splash ,
splurge ,
spoof ,
spurious ,
staginess ,
stalking -
horse ,
stratagem ,
stylishness ,
substitute ,
subterfuge ,
supposititious ,
swindle ,
synthetic ,
theatrics ,
tin ,
tinsel ,
titivated ,
travesty ,
trick ,
tug the heartstrings ,
twisted ,
unauthentic ,
ungenuine ,
unnatural ,
unnaturalness ,
unreal ,
varnish ,
vaunt ,
veil ,
warped ,
wear ,
whited sepulcher ,
window dressing
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