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sham English

Meaning sham meaning

What does sham mean?

sham

(= fake) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be (= feign) make believe with the intent to deceive He feigned that he was ill He shammed a headache (= assume, feign) make a pretence of She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger he feigned sleep (= assumed, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on) 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 (= imposter) a person who makes deceitful pretenses

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How do I use sham in a sentence?

Simple sentences

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
The Bermuda Triangle is a sham.

Movie subtitles

I'm only a sham.
A sham!
I tell you, the women are smoking cigarettes, drinking whisky, doing the shimmy-sham-shimmy hot damn, man.
Her very innocence is a sham, a mask of deceit devised?
The Army was a sham, consisting of a few officers and construction workers.
A sham in my relations to others.
The same sham - a desperate attempt to please.
That's a shim-sham.
This is the use of sham tactics. in Ninjitsu.
Shouldn't we expect false witnesses. and sham trials. accusing the Strike Committee of being a band of criminals?
All of 'em, all their lives, think it's a sham, it's rigged, you can't fight city hall.
Acting the little god down here with his patronage and his sham aesthetics, and everyone is taken in.
If what you say is true I've led myself to this governments suicidal sham.
You are a sham!
It used to make my heart ache to hear you worship that overgrown sham, the way you kowtowed to him.
He said you were a sham, nothing but a bluff.
She's a sham, too.
And in what way is the princess a sham, if it's not troubling you too much?
This maneuver is a sham, a sort of premeditated plot that is not completely honest.
The clubfoot and I. It was all a sham.
I think we ought to strip away the sham and pretension from advertising.
This was all a sham, all evening!
You believe this sham?
Venus-Sham-Poo!
It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.
A sham in my relations to others. To men.
Matahachi wasn't at Mt. Fuwa. you're nothing but a sham of a good person.
Get as many as you can carry and give them to Sham for distribution.
And sham vows at the town hall!
But everything down here is a sham.
Why do you sham?
The pleasure cruise is a sham.
It was all a cheap sham.
A fraud, Bluntschli, a hollow sham, like love.
A hollow sham, I say.
She's 34 and trapped in a loveless sham of a marriage.
My whole life is a sham.
I reckon it's a sham, a diplomatic heart attack.
Everything with you is a fake, a sham, isn't it?

News and current affairs

So irreconcilable are these paradoxes that the 16th Party Congress that will convene next week cannot hope but to show itself as a democratic sham.
It is no use denying that civic participation too often serves only to legitimize a sham.
So real parliaments and sham parliaments are treated as equals.
They then tried to force the Ukrainian people to swallow this sham - threatening to ban public gatherings, close our borders to new visa seekers, and silence any word of our protests on television.
The distance that separates the West from countries that rely on sham elections is not only geographic, religious, or cultural; it is chronological.
Russian citizens under today's sham market economy are locked out: locked out of the normal conditions of life; out of decently paid jobs, or what is even more common, out of paid jobs altogether.
This is a promising step forward, but there is always a danger that a declaration of principles and a voluntary approach will turn into a sham.
Acupuncture started within 30 days of stroke onset, with control groups receiving a placebo - sham acupuncture - or no treatment.
Compared to patients who received sham acupuncture or no treatment, far fewer of those who received acupuncture died or became invalid within three months.
Oddly, when comparing acupuncture with sham acupuncture, the statistical difference concerning death or the need for institutional care was small.
And only three trials-all conducted in Europe-used sham acupuncture as a control, whereas no acupuncture trials controlled with placebos or sham acupuncture have been reported in China, owing to high cultural barriers.
With this move, the military leaders are putting their sham vote aimed at tightening their repressive grip on power ahead of the well being of the Burmese people.
Others see it as a sham marriage.
Again, this is nothing like the rubber-stamp sham parliaments of countries like Egypt and Syria.
The elections earlier this year, which many at first assumed were a sham, now appear to have produced changes to which Asia's countries will need to collectively and individually respond.
Or is it simply a sham vote for an emasculated institution?

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